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Friday, May 3, 2024
EIN NEWS: Klamath River Dams: KRRC’s Proposed Dam Removal Project – Minority Consensus For Environmental And Ecological Disaster 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. […]
By Jess Harris01/28/2024 California State Water Board and Staff, The request for permanent instream flows is, at best, ignorant. The several eco-terrorist groups that have submitted the petition for rulemaking either lack the understanding that the State Water Board (SWB) has no authority to set instream flows outside of the […]
Source: California Senate Republicans SACRAMENTO – On the Senate floor today, Senator Brian Dahle (R-Bieber) presented an amendment to stop the dangerous practice of releasing sexually violent predators (SVPs) into communities on transient status. This was his second attempt proposing the solution and Senate Democrats’ second time blocking it. “California Democrats continue to […]
State Water Resources Control Board staff and the University of California (UC) at Davis technical team will host a virtual webinar on the Scott Valley Integrated Hydrologic Model (Model). In this webinar the technical team will cover basic information about the Model, including Model structure and data needs, Model assumptions, […]
College Rectifies their Non-Compliance for 2022-23 College of the Siskiyous Faculty Association WEED – A settlement was reached between the College of the Siskiyous (COS) and the College of the Siskiyous Faculty Association (COSFA), after the faculty and the college returned to the table. Previously the college had been out of compliance with the “Fifty Percent Law” since 2021-22. COSFA was able to win a […]
In recognition of the fact that Hornbrook Fire Protection District is under funded, under-staffed and nevertheless was on-scene at the Copco Lake mud pit, trying to save wildlife from a slow miserable death in the hazardous mud exposed by KRRC’s Klamath Dam removal project, the all volunteer nonprofit Wild Horse Fire Brigade has donated […]
*cover photo: ai rendition of the new Klamath RiverRE: Klamath Dam Removal By Jess Harris The Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC), RES, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the US Department of the Interior, and the State of California: The Klamath River […]
Cover Photo Credit:— at Copco Lake & Klamath River. Terry Kent In response to RES’s suggestion of providing stock tanks with fresh water for wildlife, RES Director, Dave Coffman, stated that RES’s main focus is on the conservation of Western Pond Turtles, coho salmon, federally protected suckers, bald eagles, and other specific […]
Orleans danger zone for sediment is above 200 mg/L. At this level, sediment can smother salmon eggs and fry. However, the effects of sediment on salmon can also depend on the type of sediment, the size of the sediment particles, and the flow of the water. Source: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=11511990&legacy=1along with other […]
Reprinted with permission from WORLD NEWS DAILYBy Sarah FosterFirst Published February 22, 2003 at 1:00am Recently uncovered evidence strongly suggests that the deaths of 33,000 salmon and steelhead trout during last September’s fall run within 20 miles of the mouth of the Klamath River in northern California was not due simply […]
