Klamath Basin Irrigators continue to challenge the right of the federal government to use water stored in Upper Klamath Lake to benefit threatened Klamath River salmon (see this link). They will likely take the challenge to the Supreme Court. Upper Klamath Lake is the Klamath Rivers source, The River begins at the Lake’s outlet.
This legal challenge to the rights of Salmon and the Tribes and fishermen who depend on them to have adequate River flows is a clear sign that the effort to provide Klamath River flows adequate for a healthy River will continue to be opposed by Irrigation interests.
The same will prove true in the Scott and Shasta River Basins. This means that the non-violent struggle for adequate flows and a healthy Klamath River must continue.
