Historic funding from President Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law headed to Klamath Basin

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Historic funding from President Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law headed to Klamath Basin

WASHINGTON — Building on months of close collaboration and engagement with Klamath Basin stakeholders, Tribes, and federal, state and local leaders, the Department of the Interior today announced that nearly $26 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been allocated for Klamath Basin restoration projects, including nearly $16 million for ecosystem restoration projects in the Basin and $10 million to expand the Klamath Falls National Fish Hatchery.

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173rd Fighter Wing Crew Chief pays homage to Choctaw lineage, military service

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173rd Fighter Wing Crew Chief pays homage to Choctaw lineage, military service

KINGSLEY FIELD - U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft have standard paint schemes designed to fit their combat role. However, there is one exception to the rule of uniformity required of military aircraft—nose art.

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Klamath Tribes file lawsuit against Reclamation and USFWS

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Klamath Tribes file lawsuit against Reclamation and USFWS

CHILOQUIN, Ore. - The Klamath Tribes see no alternative but to sue the Federal Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to force those agencies to live up to their obligations under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) and protect the C’waam (Lost River sucker) and Koptu (shortnose sucker) from extinction.

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Klamath Tribes respond to BOR water allocations

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Klamath Tribes respond to BOR water allocations

CHILOQUIN, Ore. - Yesterday’s announcement by the Bureau of Reclamation of its 2022 Operations Plan is perhaps the saddest chapter yet in a long history of treaty violations visited upon us by the United States.

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Reclamation opens Klamath Project irrigation season with limited water allocation

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Reclamation opens Klamath Project irrigation season with limited water allocation

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – The Bureau of Reclamation announced today, the initial Klamath Project water supply allocation in the third consecutive year of drought conditions. Coupled with the allocation announcement is the release of the Klamath Project 2022 Temporary Operating Procedures, which will guide operations for the 2022 water year.

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Chiloquin students help Klamath Tribal Youth Council with sticker shock, alcohol awareness campaign

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Chiloquin students help Klamath Tribal Youth Council with sticker shock, alcohol awareness campaign

Chiloquin Junior/Senior High School freshman Weeyaya Brown peeled off bright yellow stickers and carefully placed them on the bottles of beer in the coolers at Clyde’s Market in Chiloquin.

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Klamath Tribes welcomes new health general manager

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Klamath Tribes welcomes new health general manager

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Klamath Tribes are pleased to announce the return of Chanda Aloysius Yates. She returned home to Klamath Falls, and started work this week as the General Manager of Klamath Tribal Health & Family Services- the health division of the Klamath Tribes responsible for providing over-all healthcare services to the Native American populations who reside in Klamath County.

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Local leaders applaud state funding relief

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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Today, the Oregon legislature approved $20 million in funding for critical needs in Klamath County caused by water curtailments and wildfire. “This is welcome news,” said Klamath County Commissioner Kelley Minty Morris, who was on point for local interests pursuing the funding. “We are grateful for this action, and for Governor Brown’s support for this desperately needed funding package.”

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Behavioral health and sobering center opens on Foster Avenue

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Behavioral health and sobering center opens on Foster Avenue

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Klamath Basin Behavioral Health and Sky Lakes Medical Center have officially launched The Link Access Center, a collaborative behavioral health and sobering center in Klamath Falls.

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Wetlands transformation

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Wetlands transformation

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - An amazing transformation is taking place on a 40 acre parcel of fallow land on the shores of Klamath Lake. This land, the ancestral home of the Klamath and Modoc people, is coming back to life thanks to a partnership that includes the Klamath Tribes, the Oregon Department of Transportation and contractors.

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Congressman Bentz questions Interior Secretary Haaland on drought relief for Klamath Basin

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Congressman Bentz questions Interior Secretary Haaland on drought relief for Klamath Basin

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, during a House Natural Resources Committee Budget Oversight Hearing on the Department of Interior's Spending Priorities and the President's Fiscal Year Budget 2022 Proposal, Congressman Cliff Bentz (R-Ont.) questioned Department of the Interior Secretary Debra Haaland on the Agency's efforts to direct relief to the Klamath Basin where extreme and exceptional drought conditions have caused the Klamath Project to make an unprecedented zero water allocation for irrigators this water year.

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Rep. Bentz & Rep. LaMalfa issue $57M proposal to address Klamath Water Crisis [VIDEO]

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Rep. Bentz & Rep. LaMalfa issue $57M proposal to address Klamath Water Crisis [VIDEO]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) delivered his first speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was joined by Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) in raising awareness of the catastrophic drought in the American West and supporting immediate relief for those affected by the ongoing crisis in the Klamath Basin through a $57 million aid and relief proposal.

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Klamath Tribes issue statement on BOR water management announcement

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Klamath Tribes issue statement on BOR water management announcement

CHILOQUIN, Ore.- The Klamath Tribes take zero pleasure in Reclamation’s announcement this morning that there will be no water for flushing flows to mitigate disease risk for salmon in the Klamath River.

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Extreme drought conditions force closure of Klamath Project’s “A” Canal

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Extreme drought conditions force closure of Klamath Project’s “A” Canal

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Increasing extreme drought conditions in combination with operations for threatened and endangered species will further reduce Klamath Project water supplies to historically low volumes in 2021. Given the insufficiency of the expected water supply, the Bureau of Reclamation announced today that Klamath Project’s “A” Canal will remain closed for the 2021 irrigation season.

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Klamath Basin Tribes, conservationists and commercial fishermen call on Biden Administration for extreme drought economic disaster relief

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Klamath Basin Tribes, conservationists and commercial fishermen call on Biden Administration for extreme drought economic disaster relief

KLAMATH BASIN – On Friday, April 16, a coalition of three Klamath Basin Tribes joined with groups that represent conservationists and commercial fishermen to urge the Biden administration to grant significant financial relief to all Klamath Basin communities in response to what is predicted to be the driest year on record for the region.

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KWUA Brings legal challenge to Klamath Project Operations [UPDATED]

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KWUA Brings legal challenge to Klamath Project Operations [UPDATED]

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - On April 19, Klamath Water Users Association filed court papers to re-open a lawsuit and seek a ruling that the Bureau of Reclamation’s current approach to regulating water deliveries for the Klamath Project is illegal. KWUA filed a motion in federal court asking the court to lift a stay of existing litigation and then rule on critical legal issues that affect irrigation water availability.

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Karuk Tribe provides a statement on the Klamath Operations Plan

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Karuk Tribe provides a statement on the Klamath Operations Plan

HAPPY CAMP, Calif. - In the face of what may be the worst drought in modern history, the United States Department of Interior released a Temporary Operations Plan for the Klamath Irrigation Project. The plan dramatically curtails irrigation diversions to less than 10% of demand while failing to meet the biological needs of salmon fisheries downstream.

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Klamath Tribes file suite against the Bureau of Reclamation over Reclamation's ongoing violations of the Endangered Species Act

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Klamath Tribes file suite against the Bureau of Reclamation over Reclamation's ongoing violations of the Endangered Species Act

CHILOQUIN, Ore. - The Klamath Tribes today filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Reclamation in federal district court in Medford, Oregon, over Reclamation’s ongoing violations of the Endangered Species Act in its operation of the Klamath Project. C’waam (Lost River sucker) and Koptu (shortnose sucker), two critically endangered fish of vital spiritual and cultural importance to the Tribes, are being pushed to the very brink of extinction by Reclamation’s violation of one of our country’s bedrock environmental laws.

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