Lawmakers Push to Keep Four Hydro-dams Running Healthy River 15.3.6. A. Assurance by the Yurok Tribe and the United States. The United States acting in its trustee capacity and the Yurok Tribe hereby provide interim assurance that the two will not assert (2) the two parties will not assert Yurok tribal or trust water rights, whatever they may be, in a manner, that will interfere with the diversion, use or reuse of water for the Klamath Project that is not precluded by the limitation on diversions of water from Upper Klamath Lake and the Klamath River as provided in Appendix E-1......... B. Yurok Tribe Waiver of Claims Against the United States. The Yurok Tribe agrees to provide, and support in the federal Authorizing Legislation contemplated by this Agreement (Appendix A-1), a complete waiver and release of claims against the United States, its agencies, and officers of all claims for damages, losses or injuries to rights to water, claims of interference with, diversion or taking of such water rights, due to water rights related or water management actions or inaction in the Klamath River Basin above the Oregon-California Border , ...................
The largest river restoration effort in history
This Issue is generating so many articles from so many perspectives that I am unable to keep them all updated. What I am going to do is post links to the sources from up and down the river,PEASE, check these sources often,as they will have the newest and latest information available.
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cite need for electricity
Feb.26,2011
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Water Plan OK'D
Jan.5,20111
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/The Klamath River lessons
Oct.2,2009
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Utility agrees to removal of 4 Klamath River dams
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Waters Still Turbulent in Water Deal
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Klamath Dam Deal Needs More Work
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It's time to Protect the Fish
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Oregon fund bill would go to Klamath dam removal
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State rejects tribe's bid to halt suction dredging
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National Geographic Article
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Tribe seeks to halt suction dredging on parts of the Klamath River
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River gets national attention
11-29-08
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Pact looks to remove hydropower project on the Klamath River by 2020
11-14-08
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Water regulators get an earful on Klamath
Oct 21 2008
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July 16 2008
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June 10 2008
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June 10 2008
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It is appearent that people up river are not happy just as people down river are not happy. I make no claim to being an expert on this issue, hell I doubt if my knowledge base would even be classified as "informed" but the gist of the matter is:
"Do we endorse the Proposed Draft "as is" or not?"
Endorsement will cost us all our future generations
"Water Rights and Fishing Rights"
FOREVER
This is what OUR Council is agreeing to so they will obtain yearly Budget Money for Departmental Operation.
Assurances By and Between the Yurok Tribe and the United States.
(1) tribal water or fishing rights theories or tribal trust theories in a manner, and
{The Tribal Council's idea of "COMPLETE" or the US Government's ?}
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When a dam is demolished, the old ways return
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High Country News Articles of Interrest
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EPA finds Klamath River impaired by toxic algae
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PacifiCorps Klamath River dams held the highest levels of the toxic algae, Microcystis aeruginosa, recorded in North America;
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New hurdle for Klamath dams
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Oregon law could nix proposed water agreement
Herald& News Wednesday, March 5, 2008
An Oregon law could threaten the future of the proposed Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement.State lawmakers from Klamath Falls said Oregon Water Resources Department staff violated state law by participating in closed-door meetings with the Klamath Tribes during two-and-a-half years of settlement talks.
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All eyes on the river March 1, 2008 TRIPLICATE
Dams in the bull's-eye March 8, 2008 TRIPLICATE
The future of the Klamath : Into the breach
March 15, 2008 TRIPLICATE
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Published: March 1, 2008 TRIPLICATE
Jan. 15 was an unusual day.
A hefty proposal to renew the Klamath River Basin was released that day after stakeholders from 26 diverse groups worked for more than two years to draft the document. It calls for the largest dam removal project and river restoration effort in history.
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Klamath Irrigation District votes in favor of settlement agreement
Feb 20, 2008 Herald and News
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Supervisors conditionally approval Klamath agreement
02/20/2008 The Times-Standard 
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Supervisors give tentative nod to Klamath River agreement
Published: Feb 19 2008 EUREKA REPORTER 
A Good Question I'd like to know the answer to is: Who were the Members the Tribe did "Extensive Consultation" with?
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MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT THE KLAMATH WATER ISSUES
There are many myths and much deliberate misinformation about the impact of new water policies in the Klamath Basin to protect fish and wildlife and prevent extinction of salmon as well as other species. This fact sheet includes the most common myths, indicates what the real situation is, and provides links and references to source material to back up this information. Feel free to challenge these myths wherever you see them and demand verification. In all but the rarest of cases the people circulating these myths are doing do for their own political reasons, and cannot back them up with facts. Also feel free to circulate this Fact Sheet widely. We believe the debate over water policy in the Klamath Basin will only improve once the people involved get beyond rhetoric and denial to actual facts and data, as we have done below.
A POLICY ACCESSMENT OF THE 2001 KLAMATH RECLAMATION PROJECT WATER ALLOCATION DECISIONS
Water Allocation in the Klamath Reclamation Project, "Policy"
(Oregon State University/University of California)
WELL WORTH THE READING
