Mark Branscum the CEO of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, aka ‘KRRC’ is out of his depth and in uncharted waters with no map, compass or sextant. And so are all of his contractors.
And Dave Coffman project leader for Resource Environmental Services (‘RES’) is just along for the $-million dollar ride, seemingly without a care for the needless, unnecessary and excessive ‘takings’ of wildlife, easily preventable with the barrier fences that they (KRRC & RES) promised that would be accompanied by alternative water sources for wildlife, horses and other livestock.
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“There will very little or NO Sediment” released”. MY ASS, well I hope all these so-called experts are happy now. But they are not because they do no wrong. Hope the Indians catch lots of fish down river so they can sustain their way of life.
My reading of the history of the Klamath showed it very hard hit by the fur trade, when Russian and European fur traders paid the natives for beaver skins. Prior, the river’s rate of erosion was lowered by a profusion of beaver habitat (dams and ponds) and after, rapid erosion turned it into a completely different river. For those fans of this who think we’re returning the river to it’s natural state, that won’t happen without a hundred years of unmolested beaver expansion.
I grew up in Happy Camp in the early 70’s, I legally fished large salmon runs in the spring and fall. I have no problem with the Indians right to subsistance fish the river. I have a problem with the Indians making a profit selling salmon and steelhead from gill netting all the fish at the mouth of the Klamath river. The fish runs have declined slowly year after year because of constant overfishing at the mouth. Very few cold running spawning creeks and streams above Irongate dam. Removing the dam has now destroyed the Klamath River ecosystem . I suggest legal action against the lower and upper Klamath river Indian tribes.
Absolutely right Fudd
I was vigilantly opposed to the dam removal. A mere 37 years ago we were peacefully protesting the construction of the “Salt Caves Dam” on the Upper Klamath. Such contrast. Since keeping them was fruitless, my thoughts changed to “I hope they were right taking them out”. It appears all predictions were wrong. The loss of wildlife in the mud is heartbreaking, the loss of fish is yet to be learned.
So now Bill Simpson is a hydrologist, ethologist, restoration ecologist and star of the Doomsday Preppers show. A true renaissance man. All without any formal training in these fields. Inpressive.
Study history… formal training… Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, “LOL” Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and I believe Elon.. And how many countless others.
The late Jeff Head who wrote the first story, The Stand at Klamath Falls, would be appalled. Netflix has a factual movie called The Stand, about the ranch seizures.