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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>POWER COMPANY WOULD RATHER
TRUCK FISH THAN BUILD LADDERS, SCREENS ON KLAMATH<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>By Associated Press Apr 30,
2006 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>GRANTS PASS</span></font></st1:City><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Ore.</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>PacifiCorp proposed Friday
that it use a less expensive system of trucks and traps to haul salmon around
dams on the Klamath River rather than spend $200 million to build fish ladders
and screen turbines -- at least until it sees whether the fish can survive in
waters they haven't inhabited in nearly a century....<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>After the third straight
year of dangerously low returns of wild fall chinook salmon to the Klamath, the
Pacific Fishery Management Council has recommended shutting down commercial
salmon fishing along 400 miles of coast straddling the mouth of the <st1:place
w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place>, with very limited fishing north and south
of that zone. Salmon in the Klamath have had problems for more than a century.
Gold mining in the 1850s caused extensive erosion that silted over spawning
beds. In the early 1900s, a federal irrigation project diverted water from the
river. A federal salmon egg collecting station cut off returns to the upper
basin in 1910. The first of the dams, Copco No. 1, was completed in 1918 with
no fish ladder, permanently shutting off access to the upper basin. Highly
toxic algae has been discovered in reservoirs behind two of the dams.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/04/30/area_news/news03.txt">http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/04/30/area_news/news03.txt</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Also in the news
(thanks to the Karuk Tribe)…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>EPA HONORS TRIBES AS
ENVIRONMENTAL HEROS: Karuk honored for work with toxic algae <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><st1:City w:st="on"><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>SAN
FRANCISCO</span></font></st1:City><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> - The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency selected American Indian tribes in the West, along the border
and in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:place></st1:State>
for environmental excellence, during the EPA's eighth annual Environmental
Awards ceremony...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The EPA also selected Sandi
Tripp and Susan Corum of the Karuk Tribe of <st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State>,
Department of Natural Resources, in <st1:City w:st="on">Orleans</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Calif</st1:State> The Karuk Tribe played a key role in discovering
and providing a timely response to toxic algae blooms in the <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath
River</st1:place>. Tribal members notified resource managers and public health
officials throughout the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Klamath</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Basin</st1:PlaceType> and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>,
resulting in a comprehensive monitoring program. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412876">http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412876</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>KLAMATH'S DAMS REMOVAL WILL
HELP ECONOMY (This is a response to Marcia Armstrong's editorial against dam
removal.) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>By S. Craig Tucker <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Many of us who live along
the Klamath have watched the fish runs plummet and with them our local
economies. Communities such as Happy Camp, once known as the steelhead capital
of the world, attracted anglers from around the world. Today, these communities
have had their economic bedrock, the fishery, ripped out from under them. The
Klamath once returned nearly a million wild salmon each year. This year the
expected return is less than 30,000.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Now the Klamath problem is
metastasizing. Recently, the decision to severely restrict more than 700 miles
of coastline to salmon fishing has grabbed the attention of lawmakers from <st1:City
w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:City> to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Portland</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Ore.</st1:State></st1:place> The fishery closure could
result in economic losses of $200 million and drive many family fishermen out
of business. However, there is hope for the Klamath. The FERC relicensing of
the Klamath dams provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reverse this
trend by enabling the removal of the lower four Klamath dams.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www1.redding.com/redd/op_speak_your_piece/article/0,2232,REDD_18100_4648581,00.html">http://www1.redding.com/redd/op_speak_your_piece/article/0,2232,REDD_18100_4648581,00.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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