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margin: 0px 100px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit;">Water coalition aims to coordinate conservation efforts</h1><div class="ydp565920e1meta" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 100px;"><ul class="ydp565920e1list-inline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; list-style: none;"><li style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><span id="ydp565920e1author-popup-5548ec30-3846-11e3-b4ab-001a4bcf887a-asset-ddde3402-4a52-55aa-8727-00a11c2b8e28" class="ydp565920e1tnt-byline ydp565920e1asset-byline" itemprop="author" data-original-title="" title=""><a href="https://www.heraldandnews.com/users/profile/Holly%20Dillemuth" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(65, 117, 170);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">By HOLLY DILLEMUTH H&N Staff Reporter</a></span></li> <li style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">Nov 19, 2019</li> <li class="ydp565920e1hidden-print" style="display: inline-block; 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line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">Herald and News</h2><p class="ydp515e0dc1card-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 155, 167);"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="ydp565920e1Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="ydp34a76e47asset-content ydp34a76e47subscriber-premium" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-preview"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The Coalition of the Willing, a group of about 50 to 60 individuals who represent a wide range of interests related to water in Siskiyou, Modoc, and Klamath counties, has hired a facilitator whose salary is being financed in part by county funds, with pledges made by state and federal entities.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-preview"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The water coalition has been meeting since 2018 and started under the facilitation of Alan Mikkelsen, senior adviser to Secretary of the Interior on water and western resources.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Mikkelsen told the Herald and News in an interview Thursday that the coalition met that week in Medford, both separately from him and other aides and then collectively over the course of two days. The group has been meeting in this way since May.</p></div><div id="ydp34a76e47tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="ydp34a76e47tncms-region ydp34a76e47hidden-print"></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“This is being driven by the stakeholders,” Mikkelsen said.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“We’re just responding to their requests,” he added.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Dan Keppen and Craig Tucker informally chair the stakeholders coalition, which includes individuals from numerous organizations: counties, water user organizations above Upper Klamath Lake, and within the Klamath Project; irrgigators from the Rogue Valley, Klamath, Yurok, and Hoopa Valley tribes; waterfowl and fisheries conservation groups, as well as representatives from Oregon and California Farm Bureaus, and Klamath County Chamber of Commerce and other business representatives from the Basin.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;"><strong>Mediator hired</strong></p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The group this year hired Rich Wilson, a professional mediator from the Sacramento area, who has also worked with Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors on groundwater issues, according to Keppen.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Keppen is co-chairing the group as a resident of the Klamath Basin with extensive water policy experience.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The stakeholders group is gathering funding to cover Wilson’s facilitator salary through March, at which time Keppen anticipates finalizing a report laying out the progress and next steps. Some of those funds are coming from nonprofit and non-governmental organizations. A $15,000 check was delivered to stakeholders by Klamath County Commissioner Derrick DeGroot on Wednesday, funds that will help pay for Wilson’s services.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Modoc County has pledged to contribute $2,500 and Siskiyou County has pledged to contribute $5,000 to the group. Mikkelsen said Department of Interior will contribute up to and including $10,000 and the state of Oregon will also pay up to and including $10,000.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Keppen would not say how much Wilson’s salary is, but that it would fund his services through March.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">A report or memorandum of understanding between individuals meeting together is expected to be finished by that time.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;"><strong>Next steps</strong></p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“Once we have a product of some sort that lays out what we’re doing … then we’ll have something in hand that perhaps the group as a whole can go to and look to for additional funding to advance some of this,” Keppen said. “We just want to build trust with folks up and down the (Klamath) River.”</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“We’re not developing any long-term settlement or anything, it’s really just trying to see where we’ve got agreement and understanding people better,” Keppen added.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“We’re not going to be done by any means in March, but I think really we wanted to get a short-term effort going to get some trust built up.”</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Such a report could contain a list of projects and other recommendations to move toward a “Basin-wide management of fisheries, waterfowl, and water management actions,” Keppen said.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“It’ll be a report that lays out, here’s what this group feels like are important projects that could be done throughout the watershed,” Keppen said. “Here’s how we think these projects should be evaluated.”</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;"><strong>Coordinated efforts</strong></p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Keppen said there’s also an emphasis to make sure all efforts are coordinated.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“For the last couple decades, we’ve had kind of random acts of conservation,” Keppen said. “Lots of things being done, they’re all probably good. But it’s hard to see how the fish are benefiting.”</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Keppen said last Wednesday’s stakeholder coalition identified potential conservation projects in each sub-basin that could be effective. The stakeholder subgroup met with federal and state aides on Thursday to add another layer to that discussion, with ways that government agencies could add to project ideas to improve water quality and fisheries health.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“People are seeing some pretty good momentum here,” Keppen said. “I’m hoping that a bunch of these things sort of line up into some sort of a cohesive package that gets some good things done in a way that we know is helping the environment.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“The sooner the fish numbers come up, the better all of us are going to be,” he added. “For the irrigators, hopefully it’s going to be not as strict regulation further on down the road. For the tribes, it’s a big part of their culture and their food supply.”</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“I think there’s a sense of optimism,” Keppen added. “It was to me, pretty remarkable that we’re having pretty constructive discussions at a time when I think there’s seven ongoing acts of litigation in the Basin.”</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;"><strong>Dams not included</strong></p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Keppen emphasized that the meetings do not include removal of four dams along the Klamath River, which he sees as a potential misconception about the group.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The meetings are closed to the public and media while the group continues to build trust among parties and discuss topics that might otherwise be limited due to ongoing litigation.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“This is still pretty grassroots,” he said. “We’re brainstorming, and the whole process is intending to complement what Alan is doing. We just have a little bit more openness and flexibility to talk about things because they are bound by all these litigations … the litigations prevents them from doing that.</p></div><div id="ydp34a76e47tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="ydp34a76e47tncms-region ydp34a76e47hidden-print"></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“At some point, we’re probably going to move to some sort of a governance structure,” Keppen added.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Keppen also addressed the potential for public perception that this effort resembles a second Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“We are nowhere near anything like the KBRA,” Keppen said. “That took years and years of negotiations. If something like that were to happen, this time around, it wouldn’t have anything to do with dam removal.”</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;"><strong>Addressing challenges</strong></p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The coalition aims to address challenges to fisheries, water supply, and waterfowl and forest health.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“Right now, we’re just brainstorming and here’s kind of our wish list of things that we think could have multiple benefits and could work toward building trust that could lead to some sort of a long-term solution down the road, which we’re a long ways away from right now,” Keppen said.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">State and federal officials no longer attend the stakeholders-only group gathering.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“We don’t participate in those, since mid-Summer, I think,” Mikkelsen said.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The second day, that group met with Mikkelsen, who said Thursday he heard a presentation on water quality.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“At times that they think it’s appropriate to engage the state and federal parties, we’ll be there,” Mikkelsen said.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Mikkelsen said it was ultimately determined that the best way to have stakeholder buy-in on the process was to have stakeholders control the process.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“The solutions have to come from the stakeholders here in the Basin,” Mikkelsen said. “All of the stakeholders have been invited to participate in those meetings. We stand ready to do what we can to assist the process, but in the mean time ... we don’t feel there’s anything we can really do to drive that process. So that’s why we are asking the stakeholder’s group to continue to focus on Basin-wide solutions, which is what they’re doing.”</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The full coalition will reconvene in February or March 2020.</p></div><div class="ydp34a76e47subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Keppen said at that time, the coalition plans to have compiled a report that is slated to help them collectively move forward.</p></div><div id="ydp34a76e47tncms-region-article_instory_bottom" class="ydp34a76e47tncms-region ydp34a76e47hidden-print"></div><div id="ydp34a76e47tncms-region-article_bottom_content" class="ydp34a76e47tncms-region ydp34a76e47hidden-print"></div><div class="ydp34a76e47inform-container ydp34a76e47inform-video-player-3"><div class="ydp34a76e47inform-embed" data-placement-id="inform-video-player-3" data-tracking-group="80021" data-width="100%" data-aspect-ratio="16:9"></div></div></div><div class="ydp34a76e47share-container ydp34a76e47content-below" data-subscription-required-remove="" style="margin: 20px 0px; 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