The feds’ good news: ‘Peace in our time’
By Peter Jamison
For California’s commercial salmon fishery, which repeatedly finds itself pummeled by bad breaks, the past week has brought an unusual flurry of decent news. Last Friday, federal and state officials announced an “agreement in principle” with the utility PacificCorp to remove four hydropower dams from the Klamath River, which snakes across the Oregon-California border. On Tuesday, officials from NOAA Fisheries Service issued
It’s Time to Panic. But Then What?
By Peter Jamison
I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized federal initiatives to protect the rivers where salmon spawn — the most prominent is an “agreement in principle” among state and federal officials and the electric utility PacifiCorp to remove f
Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...
Dan BacherThe Klamath Basin Coalition
refers to the Klamath Basin, which encompasses areas in Northern California and Southern Oregon, as the "Western Everglades." The organization's Web site reports that there are
still salmon species exclusive to that river system and details why
energy must be put into restoring the area into a sustainable ecosystem.
We'll get a rare chance to taste salmon from there as Native American Tribes of the Klamath Basin join SalmonAid (the latter's motto: "Restore
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