Posted on 04/26/2007 2:42:52 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- A group of Klamath River Native Americans kicked off a road trip today from San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf to demand removal of several salmon-killing dams on the Klamath River.
Members from the the Yurok, Karok and Hoopa tribes plan to tow hand-carved redwood canoes to Omaha, Neb., to a Berkshire Hathaway stockholders' meeting. The company, headed by billionaire and philanthropist Warren Buffett, owns PacifiCorp, the firm which holds the four hydropower dams on the Klamath River blamed for decimating local salmon runs.
"We hope to meet with Mr. Buffett and convince him to do the right thin
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Why won’t Bush and Cheney do anything to stop the salmon killing?!
Silly Indians.. democrats and many republicans are murdering their own children by the million.. what do they care about FISH...
Why aren’t they going there by hand-carved canoe? They are using automobiles to tow canoes?
If they are successful in removing any hydroelectric capacity subsequent to this nonsense, I propose that the homes that go without electricity first, are the homes of these very Indian protesters.
Well gee, dams do different things, like control flooding generate electricity and store water, sometimes all three.
Do they propose eliminating all these other functions in order to allow fish to breed?
Damn stupid, if you ask me.
There’s money to be made off of harvesting salmon. So the salmon will die in the end. They just will be marketable.
“Electricy producing hydroplants”
You should read more. Salmon die anyway after they spawn. Better to eat them than let them float down the river belly up, right?
Damn the dam
More puss in the thinking of militants on the Klamath!!!
Idiots.
All Indians are NOT created equal...
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2006/10/all-indians-are-not-created-equal.html
Actually a good thing. They take an interest in current events and Corporate America, they are included. Happens to all rebels eventually--they become part of the system. Everybody needs to belong and all actually do whether they feel included or not.
I stand corrected.
The Klamath Riverkeeper (a Kennedy Greenie group) and the tribes have trumped up this bogus PR to try and force PacifiCorps to remove the dams on the Klamath. The spring Chinook run that used to go above the dams was extirpated many decades ago. The Klamath tribe lives under some fantasy that dam removal will bring salmon up to the Upper Basin. That train left the station long ago. The stocks at the dam are hatchery stocks and I doubt they would have the stamina to go another 100 miles up river.
The Karuk and Yurok tribe want spawning areas for spring chinook because the stock fills a seasonal food niche. As I said, that run no longer exists on the Klamath and there are only a handfull in the Salmon River - not enough to try to reseed.
Simply pulling down the dams isn’t going to do much with the accumulation of sediment behind them that will mobilize down the river to silt in spawning beds for years and most probably extirpate remaining salmon runs in the Klamath.
They are now using the bogus excuse that toxic algae is being cause by the dams. Siskiyou County’s Health Department has determined that there is currently insufficient scientific information that the algae is toxic to humans.
The Riverkeeper claims the dams have killed the Klamath Chinook runs to the point that they have become so depressed that the fishing season has been closed for 700 miles alkong the coast. Actually, it was two parasitic diseases that have attacked juvenile fish and have cause mass mortality in the Klamath - parvacapsula and Ceratomyxa Shasta. There is insufficient scientific information to tie the dams with increased incidence of the diseases.
With the new FERC relicensing of the dams, PacifiCorp will have to put in fish ladders as a condition of the license. They did not at the last licensing as they built a mitigation hatchery operated by the Department of Fish and Game to compensate for the impact of the dams on runs. This is what primarily stocks the Klamath chinook fishery for commercial and tribal fisheries. I guess the hatcheries will not be required upon relicensing. If you think current impacts have been bad, wait and see the impact that will have on fisheries.
This mostly a PR stunt to gather publicity for their march to the stockholders meeting of PacifiCorp.
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