Lately, the soft sediment beds at Iron Gate lake-bottom looked more like an off-road recreation area than anything. The moonscape that Resource Environmental Solutions (‘RES’) claims as a ‘revegetation’ area looks more like the surface of the moon.
Failed seeding, drought, 115-degree heat wave, no irrigation, poor alkali-clay soils, herbaceous insects (including a grasshopper infestation), mice, ground squirrels, rabbits, birds, deer, elk and livestock have all spent time crossing this moonscape to reach water at the Klamath River as a result of the failure by Klamath River Renewal Corporation and RES to provide the ‘alternative water sources’ in the summer of 2023 for all these critters, per the so-called ‘Plan’.
Failed revegetation is identical on both sides of the Klamath River. Keep in mind, there are only livestock on one side of the River, the north side, Yet the south side looks the same.
William E. Simpson II is an ethologist living among and studying free-roaming native species American wild horses. William is the award-winning producer of the micro-documentary film 'Wild Horses'. He is the author of a new Study about the behavioral ecology of wild horses, two published books and more than 150 published articles on subjects related to wild horses, wildlife, wildfire, and public land (forest) management. He has appeared on NBC NEWS, ABC NEWS, CBS NEWS, theDoveTV and has been a guest on numerous talk radio shows including the Lars Larson Show, the Bill Meyer Show, NPR Jefferson Public Radio and NPR National Radio.
