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The tour begins at the Bureau of Reclamation
(BOR) Klamath Office for presentations, precedes to
the A Canal fish screen, Klamath Project farmland,
the refuge and Straits Drain.
#1
o Water
System before the Klamath Project was built
o Building the Project, rerouting and
storing the water for irrigation
o Refuges, Project efficiency,
water use, evaporation and storage
o Water Quality then and now
#2 o Conservation
Implementation Program, CIP
#3 o
Humboldt, Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT),
Klamath Water Users (KWUA) and Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR) regarding
research, data, water quality, TMDL's (total
maximum daily load of phosphorus) and Chiloquin
Dam, which blocks 95% of sucker habitat.
#4
o Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
and Project operations considering the Endangered
Species Act (ESA), NEPA, obligations to irrigators
and tribes, Clean Water Act, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC)
#5 Lease land as it relates to
the wildlife refuge
o History
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Pesticide use, diseases, and seasonal wetlands program
o Kuchel Act
and Questions and Answers (like, "Is there a
smoking gun between pesticide use and dead
waterfowl out there?")
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Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge and
Tulelake Refuge including history, plumbing,
waterfowl, operations, effect of power rate, and
endangered species
#6
o Klamath Basin Ecosystem
Restoration
#7
o Bus tour overview by Dan
Keppen, Executive Director of Klamath Water Users
Association
BUS TOUR
#8
o Impacts of the two
biological opinions for suckers and for salmon,
and how that has changed the parameters of Project
operations over the last 10 years, by John
Crawford, Project and leaseland farmer.
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At the Fish Screen on A Canal
#9
o Dr. Ken Rykbost discusses
Klamath River hydrology.
#10 At Horsefly Dam
o Description of
Horsefly District and history
o Crops,
yield and markets
o Endangered
fish
o Clear Lake
Dam
#11 o
Cattle and dairies
o Tulelake Irrigation District (TID) wells/water bank
o Tule Lake
historical depth and quantity and evaporation
o Homesteaders
o Canal lining,
pros and cons
#12
o
Refuge
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