This report to the City of Arcata describes a garden project organized by parents and Siskiyou Land Conservancy for Jacoby Creek Elementary School, in Arcata. The school leases city-owned land for the garden. Although SLC President Greg King issued this report last month, it is worth noting now that most of the “next steps” (at Read more
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Dear friends, Given the recently released Klamath Hydroelectric Agreement, and that agreement’s “indivisibility” from the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (KBRA), readers might be interested in revisiting the analysis of the KBRA that I wrote for the NEC in April of this year. Greg King President, Siskiyou Land Conservancy April 23, 2009 =================================== Analysis The Klamath Read more
The California Department of Fish and Game is overseeing efforts to create an “Incidental Take Permit” (ITP) that will allow farmers and ranchers to legally kill protected Coho salmon. For the first time, Fish and Game is allowing the agricultural communities themselves, in the form of the Scott and Shasta Resource Conservation Districts, to create the ITP, which is due out any day now.
According to Klamath Riverkeeper: “The currently proposed one-size-fits-all Incidental Take Permit system does not acknowledge the role of low flows in killing endangered species on the Scott and Shasta, and does not work toward restoring fisheries as the Endangered Species Act is intended to do in this context. Individual landowners must be held responsible for coho “take” due to de-watering.