Toby Freeman: Dam issue a concern

By TY BEAVER

H&N Staff Writer

March 14, 2008

    Toby Freeman began working for PacifiCorp on Aug. 22, 2001 , in the middle of the water crisis that struck irrigators on the Klamath Reclamation Project. 

   In February 2002, he gained familiarity with the Basin situation when he was made manager of the Klamath River dams re-licensing team. 

   He has since moved to the Basin and is employed as PacifiCorp’s regional community manager. His job involves interacting with many of about 75,000 customers from Siskiyou and Modoc counties in California and Klamath and Lake counties in Oregon . 

   “It gives me a different appreciation when the people I used to sit with in meetings, I now bump into in the supermarket or in a restaurant,” he says. 

   Freeman says he doesn’t know what will happen to the Basin if the proposed Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement either moves forward or fails. 

   Issues such as the time needed to implement it, the support needed from the community and the large amount of money needed to bring it to fruition make it anything but a black-and-white issue. 

   But he doesn’t deny that there are people in the community who want to move past old conflicts and into a more peaceful era of cooperation and cohabitation.

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