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<P><SPAN class=headline1>Tribes heading to Scotland to seek salmon passage over
Klamath Dams</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=byline>By: JEFF BARNARD - Associated
Press</SPAN>
<P class=content>GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Indian tribes, commercial fisherman and
conservationists are going to Scotland to pressure PacifiCorp's parent company
to give salmon a way over dams on the Klamath River.<BR><BR>Representatives of
the Yurok, Hoopa, Karuk and Klamath tribes, the Pacific Coast Federation of
Fishermen's Associations and Friends of the River plan to make their case at the
July 23 annual general stockholder's meeting of Scottish Power in Edinburgh,
Scotland. </P>
<P><SPAN class=content>"We think its important that they see and talk to a real
live Yurok and other Indians of the Klamath river," said Troy Fletcher,
executive director of the Yurok Tribe, whose reservation lies along the lowest
reach of the Klamath. "They need to see that we're human beings. They need to
see we have culture and traditions that have been here since the beginning of
time. And they need to see that their actions have very real impact on our
people."</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN class=content>The tribes, conservationists and fishing organizations
met with PacifiCorp over the past two years discussing their desire to open 350
miles of habitat upstream of the dams to salmon. But when the utility sent its
application for a new operating license to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission last March, there was no proposal for restoring salmon
passage.<BR><BR>The coalition hopes to be able to get into the Scottish Power
meeting as guests of stockholders and make their case to the company, said Craig
Tucker of Friends of the River, a conservation group. They are also talking to
investment groups that hold major blocks of Scottish Power
stock.<BR><BR>"Scottish power has an international reputation as a green energy
provider," Tucker said. "I'm hoping that once they hear the story of what is
happening on the Klamath directly, that they'll want to help."<BR><BR>Glen Spain
of the Pacific Federation of Fishermen's Associations, which represents
California commercial salmon fishermen, said it was important to educate the
managers of Scottish Power about the cultural and economic harm their outdated
dams were causing people in the Klamath Basin.<BR><BR>Once the third-largest
producer of salmon on the West Coast, the Klamath River has produced only a
fraction of its historic runs since the series of six dams was built was built
between 1908 and 1962. To protect the Klamath's struggling salmon runs, federal
fisheries managers have long cut back sport and commercial seasons off Northern
California and southern Oregon.<BR><BR>Though the dams only produce 151
megawatts, enough to power about 77,500 homes, PacifiCorp still considers them
very valuable because they can be used to meet sudden demands for power, such as
winter mornings when people turn on the furnaces in their homes.<BR><BR>The
utility has estimated building fish ladders to help spawning adults swim over
dams and screens to keep young fish migrating downstream out of turbines would
cost $100 million. It has said it would be more willing to consider hauling fish
around the dams in trucks.<BR><BR>PacifiCorp CEO Judi Johansen, who will attend
the stockholders meeting, is willing to meet with the tribes beforehand to
discuss a settlement process for license renewal, said spokesman Jon
Coney.<BR><BR>"The tribes are free to do this, but it's not really necessary,
because we believe their best opportunity to air and resolve these issues
surrounding the Klamath project is right here in the US," Coney said. "This is
where the licensing process is taking place. We are nowhere near the end of this
process and nowhere near the end of settlement discussions."<BR><BR>Coney said
Scottish Power takes "very seriously" the tribes' desire to restore salmon runs,
as well as a $1 billion lawsuit the Klamath Tribes have filed against PacifiCorp
for damages from the loss of salmon.<BR><BR>Fletcher said none of the tribes
along the river benefit from electricity produced by the dams, and all have been
hurt by the loss of salmon, which are central to their culture.<BR><BR>The fight
over the dams comes on top of the long-standing fight over sharing scarce water
between endangered suckers above the dams, threatened coho salmon in the Klamath
River, and farms irrigated by the Klamath Reclamation Project, which was
partially shut down during the 2001 drought to protect
fish.</SPAN></P></FONT></BODY></HTML>