Atmospheric ‘rivers’ otherwise known as rain are insignificant compared to a warm Spring rain melting the snowpack in the upper basin. The Klamath rose about 30 feet in ‘97.
The farmers were guaranteed water when their ancestors settled the area. They’ve been screwed before.
Clinton declared most of the national forests ‘roadless’ prohibiting logging. Logging supported schools. Think any kids will be raised in those areas? Gold miners are prevented from dredging as DFW was convinced that the disturbance of the streambed is harmful to fish. But it’s OK to send an estimated 17 million cubic yards downriver.
It’s another chapter in the process of eliminating people in Northern Ca. and Oregon. Next will be the rivers of Idaho and Washington. I do have a house on the river near Seiad Valley.
“I do have a house on the river near Seiad Valley.”
When I let my kids have the property near Irongate, I was so proud of myself...my children and grandchildren would always have a safe, self sufficient property near the river to survive on no matter what happened.
Now they, like me after being burned out, have no where to go and I can’t even help them!
The environmental extremists like being on FB, crowing about the senseless destruction of our Irongate Dam and our way of life. One chimed in recently when a resident had posted photos of the contaminated, clay water. He declared “ you people don’t have enough to do!”
True.... In any other year for 75 years of that dam, we might have been fishing. Maybe picking some blackberries along the Klamath River banks with our grandchildren to can for winter.
No more watching a flock of eagles playing in the sky from my deck. They left or died for an ecofreak boondoggle.
Why even bother to have a 4th of July parade!
This was a thriving ecosystem every bit as important as the straggly unproductive river of 75 years ago.