https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/us/klamath-oregon-water-drought-bundy.html
Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in California, near the Oregon border, has been severely affected by the drought and the lack of irrigation waters from Upper Klamath Lake, which usually feeds into the refuge.Credit.Will Matsuda for The New York Times
Amid Historic Drought, a New Water War in the West
A drought crisis has erupted in the Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border, with fish dying en masse and farmers infuriated that they have been cut off from their main water source.
Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in California, near the Oregon border, has been severely affected by the drought and the lack of irrigation waters from Upper Klamath Lake, which usually feeds into the refuge.Credit.Will Matsuda for The New York Times
The fight over access to water in Southern Oregon is tense enough as it is: On May 12, the federal government announced that no water at all would be passing…
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. A group of Klamath Falls farmers is becoming activists this spring, as they fight for water rights. They’ve now purchased the property and are setting up shop right next to the headgates of the “A” Canal.
The two landowners and project irrigators have set up an encampment. They say they aren’t leaving until the “A” Canal headgates are opened.
Last week this 40 by 80 canvas tent popped up out of nowhere on Nevada Street in Klamath Falls. Dan Nielsen and Grant Knoll, both landowners and project irrigators are the brains behind the operation.
“We bought this property just so we could set this camp up, we’ve just been slowly but surely getting more things set up just trying to educate people here,” said Nielsen.
Twenty years after a shut-off of most irrigation water in the parched Klamath Project brought the competing needs of farmers, fishermen and tribes to a