By Carl Reese
Hi folks, I am going to share the events of a day back in June 1999 that changed the Klamath River forever and changed many of your lives. It changed mine for sure, but before I get to 1999 I am going to tell y’all that everybody is qualified to share their thoughts even if their ideas are wrong. That includes me.
In 1992 I graduated from Arizona State University in Biology and I was turned down for medical school because I got B’s in organic chemistry. A week before graduation, my wife got offered a job in northern California so we moved. I found a job as scientific aide at CDFW (then called CDFG) doing stream surveys in the upper Eel River watershed. Every day I walked about five miles of stream and took photos and notes. Later I wrote a four page synopsis for the newly formed GIS section. GIS was brand new to me and mostly brand new to the world. It was a seasonal job so I worked construction as well. The Scientific Aide job was fun and I learned a lot but the pay sucked so I went to grad school at Humboldt State, now called Cal Poly Humboldt. I have a Master’s degree in Fisheries Biology. In 1998 I got a job as a Fisheries Biologist for the Bureau of Land Management in Klamath Falls. My wife started working as a timber cruiser on a project in Jenny Creek drainage. It’s along 66 just west of Keno. I was working for the BLM on that day in 1999.
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Dam removal is an anti-American money making scheme for big contractor groups. I hope this is was the intended point of your pointless article. The local tribe people have been pandered to and fully have been completely fooled and we have all been left with an ecological disaster here.