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The view of Upper Klamath Lake from The Sunrise Place, as two bald eagles fly nearby. (Karina Brown/Courthouse News) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Chalk up a victory for the Endangered Species Act, the Yurok ...
Upriver from the Upper Klamath Lake, the Sprague River, one of the lake's major sources, was channelized by the Army Corps of Engineers to dry out wetlands and create cattle pastures.
However, Reclamation expects Upper Klamath Lake will be 15,000 to 30,000 acre-feet below its target elevation of 4,142.2 feet by April 1, unless water managers take action.
Upper Klamath Lake is a massive, shallow freshwater lake in Klamath County, just north of Klamath Falls. Historically, it was fringed in wetlands.
Four dams fell. Now, Indigenous youth are paddling the Klamath from source to sea, reclaiming a river — and a part of ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service launched its sucker rearing program in 2013; since 2018, the agency has released just over 70,000 suckers into Upper Klamath Lake.
C’waam and koptu fish usually arrive in early spring to spawn in the creeks and rivers around Upper Klamath Lake, in southern Oregon. But this year, the fish didn’t turn up as expected.
In 1984, the tribe was forced to stop fishing altogether when their other two major fish species, the c'waam and koptu, plummeted in numbers, victim to toxic waters in Upper Klamath Lake and the ...
This tinted lithograph of “Upper Klamath Lake from Camp 28" was produced after an original sketch by John J. Young (1830-1879). It was printed as Plate III in Volume VI, Part I following page 66, in ...
Sixty years ago, I was a reporter for the Klamath Falls (Oregon) Herald and News and with my family lived in a small house on the Link River, which flows out of Upper Klamath Lake, draining a ...
Upriver from the Upper Klamath Lake, the Sprague River, one of the lake's major sources, was channelized by the Army Corps of Engineers to dry out wetlands and create cattle pastures.
In 1984, the tribe was forced to stop fishing altogether when their other two major fish species, the c'waam and koptu, plummeted in numbers, victim to toxic waters in Upper Klamath Lake and the ...