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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>KLAMATH RIVER</span></font></b></st1:place><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Klamath volunteers carve paths to cold streams for salmon<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><b><font size=4 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Eureka</span></font></b></st1:City></st1:place><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;font-weight:bold'> Times Standard – 7/12/07<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>By John Driscoll, staff writer</span></font></b><b><font
size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The <st1:place
w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> is getting hot -- killer hot, especially
for young salmon that have struggled for years to survive diseases that set in
during the summer. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>A group of <st1:City
w:st="on">Orleans</st1:City> area volunteers, nonprofit organizations, public agencies
and the Karuk Tribe have moved rock and gravel from the mouths of creeks on the
middle <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> in a stop-gap effort to
open up cold-water refuges for the little fish. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Last week,
for example, volunteers working with the Mid Klamath Watershed Council wielded
shovels to create passages between Ti and Stanshaw creeks and the Klamath. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The work is
not the solution to the many problems fish face on the Klamath, said Sandi
Tripp, director of natural resources for the Karuk Tribe. But it's critical,
she said, especially for threatened coho salmon that spend lots of time in the
river before migrating to sea. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>”It's
truly a killing zone for the fish out there in the river,” Tripp said.
“The only saving grace is to open small tributaries.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>As flows have dropped from Iron Gate Dam, and air
temperatures have risen, parts of the river are now peaking at above 76
degrees. Small, cold tributaries that run though forests and are fed by springs
and seeps can be 10 degrees cooler than that, providing significant relief for
little fish. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>”Any
fish that decides to go up there has a whole lot better chance of survival than
staying in the river,” said Gary Flosi, senior biologist for the
California Department of Fish and Game. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Coho and
chinook salmon and steelhead use the refuges until the tributaries and the
rivers begin to swell with fall rains. The initial work to create the makeshift
passages for fish was experimental, Flosi said, but over time it was clear that
the cool-water sanctuaries at the mouths of creeks were more important than
first realized. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Flosi, too,
said the work is not a long-term solution, but may be one of the few viable
options to protect young salmon while solutions to the complex problems of the
Klamath are hashed out among the varied stakeholders in the basin. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Other
projects bring in Caltrans, Fish and Game and the U.S. Forest Service.
Fish-blocking culverts are targeted for replacement, and road work is done to
prevent landslides from clogging creeks. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The volunteer
efforts to do the work at the creek mouths have gained momentum in recent
years. People in the mid-Klamath region are more and more bound together by
river restoration projects -- something everyone can agree on, said Nancy
Bailey, a project coordinator for the Mid Klamath Watershed Council. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>”More and more people are understanding the
critical nature of the creeks,” Bailey said. </span></font><font size=4
color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Editorial: Cheney link?; Thompson offers
new motive for <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> fish kills<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Santa Rosa Press Democrat – 7/12/07</span></font></b><b><font
size=4 color="#435e8f"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#435E8F;font-weight:
bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>In the death of 68,000 Chinook salmon in 2002, it's not news that the
Bush administration sided with <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State> ranchers
to the detriment of the Klamath River fishery and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">North</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Coast</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
fisherman. Until last month, however, no one connected the fish kill to Vice
President Dick Cheney. The Washington Post reported that the largest loss of
salmon in the history of the Western U.S. may be linked to the vice president's
efforts to gain favor with Republican farmers in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><br>
The impact of that Post story wasn't lost on Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena,
who has been fighting for federal support for the fishery and for relief for
salmon fishermen who suffered when the 2006 salmon season was curtailed.<br>
<br>
Politics begets politics. Thompson is a Democrat eager to embarrass a
Republican administration.<br>
<br>
As his approval ratings tumble, the secretive vice president represents the
almost perfect villain.<br>
<br>
Still, a House investigation into Cheney's role will be welcome. Americans have
a right to know if environmental rules and the economic interests of
Californians were discounted because the vice president thought gaining political
advantage in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></st1:place>
was more important.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><em><i><font size=3 color=gray
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Byron
Leydecker</span></font></i></em></st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Friends of <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity
River</st1:place>, Chair</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>California Trout, Inc., Advisor</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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