<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><a href="http://www.times-standard.com/news/ci_23624169/lawmakers-create-klamath-water-task-force">http://www.times-standard.com/news/ci_23624169/lawmakers-create-klamath-water-task-force</a></div><div><table class="regionParent" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0" style="width: 1000px; border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><table class="regionParent" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width: 1000px; border-collapse: separate; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- The governor and members of Oregon's congressional delegation have created a task force to find solutions to the water problems of the Klamath Basin.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, Republican Rep. Greg Walden and Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber announced it Monday.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">They say it will have more than 20 people representing Oregon and California state agencies, Indian tribes, farmers and ranchers, conservation groups, salmon fishermen and electric power producers.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">State watermasters have been telling ranchers in the upper Klamath Basin to turn off their irrigation due to drought and newly recognized senior water rights held by the Klamath Tribes.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The task force is being asked to consider ways to assure water for irrigation, restore fish and wildlife habitat along rivers, and negotiate a settlement over water rights.<br style="clear: both; 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