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The federal Bureau of Reclamation announced its initial water supply allocation for Klamath Basin farmers yesterday. Despite average snowpack in the region, the projected supply still isn’t enough to meet agricultural demands.
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The federal government has allocated $38 million in wildfire funding to three areas of high risk in Oregon.
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A group of farmers and ranchers in Southern Oregon have voted in favor of trying to access water in the parched Klamath Basin, even if it puts their access to federal drought funding in jeopardy.
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How to spend $162 million in habitat restoration funding for the Klamath Basin was the subject of a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
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County officials in the Klamath Basin are appealing to federal water regulators for help with hundreds of wells that ran dry last summer. They’re also trying to fix empty, cracked water canals to avoid flooding.
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Two of the Klamath Basin's native suckers are in big trouble. The endangered populations are declining fast. But scientists and the Klamath Tribes are looking for solutions that can bring the fish back.
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The national wildlife refuges in the Klamath Basin, along the Oregon-California border underwent a historic drought this year. Those refuges are a critical stopping point for up to a million birds during peak migration. What does it mean for birds to have broken links along this avian highway?
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After an unprecedented shut-off of irrigation water in the Klamath Project, ag producers had to scramble to find water for their crops. While many used groundwater wells to make up at least some of the loss, the limits of that resource became clear.
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In this driest of years in the Klamath Basin, the nation’s oldest wildlife refuge for water birds is now getting this season’s first major infusion of fresh water.
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Homes in rural areas of the Klamath Basin have lost running water as their wells fail. Part of the reason: more farmers and ranchers are pumping water from underground than any other year, because they didn’t get any irrigation water from a nearby lake.
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More than 90 families in the Klamath Basin say their domestic water wells have run dry.
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Rep. Bentz talks drought.
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The drought in the Klamath Basin has been deepening for several years now, putting farmers and ranchers in a bind. The feds have set aside almost 2 million dollars to help.
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Last week many Klamath irrigators got word that they’d be receiving no water from the main canal that feeds their farmlands. They’re angry, and they’re taking it out on government workers.