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Crowd mourns whale's death

KLAMATH, Calif. - Dozens of people gathered on a highway bridge spanning the Klamath River to mourn the death Tuesday of a 45-foot female gray whale that had delighted people for more than a month after getting stranded...

http://juneauempire.com/jason-dearen/2011-08-16/crowd-mourns-whale%E2%80%99s-dea
Republican lawmakers target Endangered Species Act

...and outright plunder."He said the law was being used "to justify the destruction" of hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River because of concerns of a decline in the salmon population.Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, the top-ranked...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2011-12-30/republican-lawmakers-target-endanger
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High king salmon prices, demand causing concern

...council decided to close down a wide swath of the West coast king salmon fishing grounds due to poor numbers on the Klamath River. Other king salmon stocks, like the Sacramento River's, are doing well. But due to the council's recent action...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052806/loc_20060528009.shtml
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Northwest Digest

...California announced Thursday they will convene a summit to find solutions for the environmental problems plaguing the Klamath River Basin and its salmon runs, including removing hydroelectric dams. Noting that PacifiCorp, a Portland-based utility...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101306/sta_20061013008.shtml
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Northwest Digest

...Water Users Association could not document any benefit to PacifiCorp, the owner of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, from water that first runs through the 180,000-acre federal irrigation project straddling the Oregon-California...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/111506/sta_20061115021.shtml
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Oregon and Alaska fish stories

...supposedly scientific underpinnings, a federal judge cut off irrigation water supplies from Upper Klamath Lake and the Klamath River to the Klamath Irrigation Project. For the first time in 100 years, farmers were left without water. Not surprisingly...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031002/loc_edboard.shtml
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Alaska Digest

...might actually save money by upgrading four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River to protect salmon, contrary to a widely circulated report that estimated...habitat and improve water quality for salmon struggling to survive in the Klamath River.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031307/sta_20070313011.shtml
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Alaska Digest

...the aid since last year, when federal officials imposed sharp cutbacks to protect struggling salmon returns on the Klamath River. The action by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration virtually eliminated the commercial salmon fishing...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031607/sta_20070316032.shtml
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Bush signs fishing bill

...shares of the total catch. At the insistence of West Coast lawmakers, the bill includes language to speed recovery of Klamath River salmon stocks in California and Oregon. For fishermen adversely affected by recent closures aimed at protecting threatened...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011407/sta_20070114004.shtml
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Suit filed to remove Klamath salmon from endangered list

...preserve high water levels in Upper Klamath Lake for the endangered sucker fish and to allow a brisk spillover rate into Klamath River for the threatened coho of southeastern Oregon and northern California. "It's the coho listing that was a major...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/020502/sta_salmon.shtml
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