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SALEM, Ore. - New rule changes aimed at providing regulatory certainty for harvesting timber and to better protect fish and wildlife will go into effect Jan. 1, 2024. The changes came about from legislationthat supported the landmark Private Forest Accord which was an agreement between the timber industry, small forest landowners, and conservation groups.
Read MorePORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon Health Authority (OHA) today issued a recreational use health advisory today for Lake Ewauna due to the presence of a cyanobacteria bloom and cyanotoxins above recreational use values for human exposure. The lake is in Klamath County.
Read MoreNORTHERN CALIFORNIA - This week, the Yurok Tribe and the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC), in collaboration with the Shasta Indian Nation, started preparing a stretch of the Klamath River to flow freely for the first time in a century.
Read MorePORTLAND, Ore.— Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued a recreational use health advisory today for Agency Lake, and extended a recreational use health advisory issued July 1 for the southern portion of Upper Klamath Lake. In addition to covering Howards Bay south to the Link River Dam, the expanded advisory now includes all of Upper Klamath Lake.
Read MorePORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued a recreational use health advisory on June 30 for the southern portion of Upper Klamath Lake, from Howards Bay south to the Link River Dam, due to the presence of a cyanobacteria bloom and cyanotoxins above recreational use values for human exposure.
Read MoreMEDFORD, Ore. — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input to inform a new land use plan for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. The plan update would protect important biological, historic, and public resources, including the objects of scientific and historic interest identified in Presidential Proclamation 7318 and Presidential Proclamation 9564, which established and expanded the monument.
Read MoreSALEM, Ore. – Yesterday, Representative E. Werner Reschke (R-Klamath Falls) and 22 bi-cameral legislators sent a letter to the Oregon Water Resources Department outlining their concerns surrounding the Division 10 rulemaking on critical groundwater areas. Lawmakers stated the need for new rules has not been adequately explained.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Project Wildflower, a team of two Oregon Tech students, has been chosen to advance in the EnergyTech University Prize (EnergyTech UP), a competition funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – This year Klamath Falls is marking 20 years as a Tree City USA community. ODF administers the Tree City USA program in Oregon for the national Arbor Day Foundation. ODF Community Assistance Forester Brittany Oxford explains that cities and towns need to meet four criteria to become a Tree City USA:
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Twice each year there are open burn windows that allow Klamath County Air Quality Zone residents the opportunity to burn yard waste. Klamath County Public Health (KCPH) just announced the 2023 Spring open burning window. Beginning at 8:00 AM, Saturday, March 18, and ends 5:00 PM, Sunday, April 2.
Read MoreSALEM, Ore. - The Oregon Legislature will be considering a number of recommendations for changes related to the statewide wildfire risk map during the 2023 session, some of which would substantively change the map itself. Following conversations last week with the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire Programs Advisory Council, the state has decided to postpone the release of an updated draft of the map, which was planned for March 2023.
Read MoreYREKA, Calif. - Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today expanded efforts to reduce wildfire risk across the western U.S., directly affecting national forests here in northern California and southern Oregon.
Read MoreCRATER LAKE, Ore. - Due to overwhelming public support, Crater Lake National Park, in conjunction with Lava Beds National Monument, Lassen Volcanic National Park, and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, will be implementing an agreement to honor each other’s annual passes beginning January 1, 2023.
Read MoreKLAMATH RIVER BASIN – Gathering along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County today [December 8, 2022], Governor Kate Brown joined California Governor Gavin Newsom, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and leaders of the Klamath, Yurok, and Karuk tribes to celebrate final approval of a transformative dam removal project that will revitalize nearly 400 miles of the Klamath River and tributaries – the largest river restoration project in American history.
Read MorePORTLAND, Ore. – Forecasters are calling for a cold and windy next few days for the Pacific Northwest, which means you should update your household outage kit.
Read MoreWASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Reps. Cliff Bentz (OR-02) Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) released a statement on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) disappointing decision to remove the Klamath dams.
Read MoreYREKA, Calif. - Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously approved the surrender of the Lower Klamath Project License and the decommissioning of the four hydroelectric dams in the Lower Klamath Project.
Read MoreKLAMATH RIVER BASIN, Calif., Ore. - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave its final approval Thursday for a plan to remove four dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon.
Read MoreSALEM, Ore. – Transformation of a degraded, contaminated 45-acre landscape on the shores of Klamath Lake into wetland habitat was honored today by the State Land Board during the 18th Annual State Land Board Awards.
Read MoreThe Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) is pleased that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today released its final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) as part of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of the Klamath River Renewal project.
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