Wildlife and Fields
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Ducklings near Tulelake farmland,
May 1, 2004
Tingley Lake 2001, by Anders
Tomlinson |
Nell
Kuonen, owner of Tingley Lake refuge, former Klamath County Commissioner,
speaks of our Klamath Basin ecosystem
devastation in 2001. |
Tingley Lake, snowgeese, April 1, 2004,
Jacqui Krizo photo |
Dr. Harry Carlson, University of
California extension office in Tulelake,
describes the lasting effects that the 2001
water cut-off had to our fields.
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photo by Anders Tomlinson |
photo by Anders Tomlinson
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Ph.D. Robert McLandress of UC Davis, ecology
California Waterfowl Association, explains waterfowl needs of farm crops
in the Klamath Basin. "...there are 433 species of
wildlife here; the opinion deals with three...."
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Silent Spring |
SILENT SPRING
Doris Bowen, farm wife and past manager of Lava
Beds National Monument, in the Klamath Basin.
She tells about wildlife in 2001, comparing it
to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring |
John
Crawford, Tulelake farmer. "..what I was
able to witness in 2001, was a shameful shameful
thing. I saw hundreds of thousands of acres of
habitat that had been utilized consistently by
hundreds of species, literally turned to acres
that were inhospitable to any wildlife at all.
It was all done in the name of 'single species'
management..." |
photo by Anders Tomlinson |
© Anders Tomlinson, April 2004,
Geese bordering Kandra field |
A Coots
Perspective, H&N by Steve Kandra, Klamath
Water Users Board of Director's President and Merrill farmer
4/30/04. "Cooperative farming
on the refuges provides this source of energy
along with the hundreds of thousands of acres of
private lands that are utilized by migrating fowl.
The critters recognize no refuge boundary and the
farm and ranch lands provide." |
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