Endangered species

In the drought-stricken Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border, water is a precious resource. Who gets that water hinges, in large part, on two types of fish that live only there.

When Rep. Cliff Bentz visited Klamath Falls Thursday, he brought promises of government aid for farmers who won't be getting irrigation water from the federal Klamath Project this season. And he urged irrigators to resist the temptation to take matters into their own hands.

Peoples Rights Oregon, a local chapter of a group founded by Ammon Bundy, is staffing the site as a “water crisis info center.”

For the first time since the federal Klamath water management project in Southern Oregon was opened in 1907, the main canal supplying water to irrigators will remain closed this season.

The federal agency will restart an environmental review to determine whether limiting mining and drilling on sage grouse habitat is crucial to the birds’ survival.

Farmers, tribes and wildlife are facing what could be the driest year ever recorded in the Klamath Basin. The magnitude of that reality came on Wednesday, when the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced the annual water allocation for farmers in the Klamath Irrigation Project.

A conservation group is suing over decisions made under former President Trump to reject petitions to protect 10 species.

A timber industry trade group and others are challenging the Biden administration’s decision to halt and reconsider the removal of millions of acres of federal protections for the northern spotted owl.

The decision to slash protections beyond an agency's recommended levels was pushed by the Trump administration in its final days.

The Center for Biological Diversity alleges the Trump administration has failed to make “expeditious progress” on species awaiting protection under the Endangered Species Act.

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