Felice Pace
July 5, 2008
Q: Who
were the original members of the
Klamath Basin Coalition
and what were the key proposals in the
Coalition’s
original vision for the
Klamath
Basin?
A: The following 10 organizations are
founding members of the
Klamath Basin Coalition:
Institute for Fisheries
Resources, Klamath Basin Audubon Society, Klamath Forest
Alliance,
Northcoast Environmental Center,
Oregon Wild, Pacific Coast
Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Sierra Club, The
Wilderness Society, Trout Unlimited, Waterwatch of Oregon.
The Coalition was organized by activists from the Klamath
Forest Alliance and Oregon Natural Resources Council (now
Oregon Wild).
The KBC's original vision:
"Our vision is to restore a
healthy, naturally diverse, and productive Klamath Basin
ecosystem by reestablishing, to as great a degree as
feasible, natural hydrological conditions and ecological
functions throughout the entire basin. This should be
accomplished through a comprehensive restoration program."
Bonus Q:
There are about 200,000 irrigated acres in the federal
Klamath Project. How much power does it take on an annual
basis to irrigate those 200,000 acres?
Bonus A:
The information is a secret. KlamBlog suspects the
reason it is not revealed is because the Klamath
Irrigation Project is among the most energy wasteful
non-military government projects in the entire USA! We
challenge the Bureau of Reclamation and Irrigation Elite
to prove otherwise!
And here's the new Question of the Week:
If PacifiCorp's Klamath
River Dams can not be legally relicensed (because they
cannot comply with the Clean Water Act) who is
responsible for removing them from the River?
(Please post your answer in a comment)
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