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Tribes
get active about water
Meetings on water issues sought with irrigators, individual
landowners
From
H&N Staff Reports
Klamath
Tribes plan to actively seek solutions to water issues with irrigators
off the Klamath Reclamation Project, and intend to meet with groups of
landowners to do so.
The
Tribes issued a press release in response to
Some
off-Project irrigators publicly opposed t e Klamath Basin Restoration
Agree- ment, released Jan. 15, demanding more water and power
assurances, and saying the Tribes shouldn’t get support for a land
purchase.
Tribal
representatives have not had an opportunity to negotiate with the people
who actually manage the riverbanks and divert water, because these
people have not been actively involved in negotiations so far, said Jeff
Mitchell, who is active on the Tribes’ negotiating team.
Individuals
“Individual landowners will make their own decisions
on this, so we intend to pursue talks with individual landowners,” he
said.
He said the Tribes intend to immediately engage in a
series of meetings with small numbers of landowners to work through the
fear and mistrust that has been generated.
“The commissioners’ recommendation fits well with
the Tribes’ ongoing approach to these issues, even though it was made
without consulting with the Tribes,” Mitchell said.
The commissioners’ focused on section 16 of the
256-page agreement. That section aims to resolve water and related
issues on off-Project lands above
“Recently some people have been circulating
misinformation about the agreement, and have brought in outsiders to
agitate and scare people into rejecting it,” Mitchell said. “So
resolving off-Project issues has been made more difficult.”
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