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Klamath Project History:

The Klamath Project History by Stene U.S. Geological Society Map of Upper Klamath Basin 1903 WaterHistory.org: The First Five: A Brief Overview of the First Reclamation Projects Oregon Institute of Technology: Klamath Waters Digital Library	Reclamation Act/Newlands Act of 1902 - The Newlands Act of 1902, named for it's author Francis Griffith Newlands, Democratic Representative from Nevada, preceded the Reclamation Service, created in July 1902, which later became the Bureau of Reclamation. The bill allowed the government to undertake irrigation projects to establish farms for relief of urban congestion.
Factual Data On The Klamath Project	TopoZone Map of the Klamath Falls Area
KLAMATH RIVER BASIN COMPACT	Topography map of Keno, OR.
Statement of J. William McDonald, Acting Commissioner, BOR on Klamath Project Operations before the Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power - March 21, 2001	Historical Photos of Link River, Upper Klamath Lake, and the Link River Dam More Historical Photos of Link River
BOR's Website on the Klamath Project BOR: Historic Operation Report 2002	Original Deed Showing Water Rights signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Historic Photos - Headgates and Tunnel	Historic Photos - Building the "A" Canal
History of Klamath County irrigation, the Klamath Project, and other important events leading to the 2001 Water Allocation Decision - Oregon State University	Preface And the Klamath River Basins from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle
COPCO NO. 1 AND NO.2 from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle	MAIL AND RAIL from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle

FISH (and Hatcheries) from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle	LINK RIVER from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle
Need For Lake Regulation from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle	REGULATION OF UPPER KLAMATH LAKE from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle
PROPOSED PLANS - ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS PLAN from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle	APPENDIX A - PUBLIC HEARINGS AND REPORTS INVOLVING CONTRACT OF FEBRUARY 24, 1917 - 2006 from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle
APPENDIX B - REFERENCE MATERIAL from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle	APPENDIX C - CONTRACT WITH THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle

SPECIAL GOVERNMENT POWER RATE UNDER CONTRACT DATED JANUARY 31,1956 from 50 years on the Klamath by John C. Boyle	Lieut.'s Williamson and Abbot 1855 report to the U.S. War Department concerning a railroad route through California and Oregon (excerpts concerning the Upper Klamath Basin) 4/30/04
A Dry Caledonia Marsh, Upper Klamath Lake, July 27, 1921	The Golden State - A History of the Region West of the Rocky Mountains (excerpts concerning the Upper Klamath Basin, published in 1872)
Photo: Confluence of Klamath and Trinity Rivers as seen from Klamath River bridge at Wietchpec 1957	KWUA Reports: Description of Pre-Project Hydrology (re: Downstream Flows) Description of Klamath Project Efficiency

Map of the Upper and Lower Klamath Lake Boundaries - 1905 and 1912	Photo: Upper Klamath Lake before 1921 - Klamath Echoes: Who built the Upper Klamath Lake dikes and levees? Volume 1, Number 2, 1965
Dan Keppen: One Hundred Years of the Klamath Project: Conserving our Resources, Preserving our Heritage February, 2005	Marcia Armstrong: The Tulelake Homesteaders
Irrigation in Klamath County : cooperative irrigation investigation with the Office of Experiment Stations, United States Department of Agriculture Kent, F.L. (Fred LeRoy) (Corvallis, Ore. : Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, 1905)	Government Printing Office: Klamath Federal Reclamation Project : Oregon-California 1936
BOR: Reclamation accomplishments, 1905-1953, Klamath Project, Oregon-California 1953	UC Davis: A Review of the History of Water Use throughout the Klamath River .S. Litton View as HTML
The Oregon History Project: Laborers on the Klamath Project 1938	A River Never the Same - A History of Water in the Klamath Basin : Chapter 3: Notes On Early Water Use In The Klamath Basin , Pg 19 – 41, by Mark Clark and Earl D. Miller 1999
I.S. Voorhees: History of the Klamath Project, Oregon-California : from May 1, 1903 to December 31, 1912 Jan 27, 1913	Bureau of Reclamation: Upper Klamath River Basin: Oregon - California, Water Resource Development 1954

Bureau of Reclamation: Annual project history and O. & M. report of the Klamath Project, Oregon-California, 1919 NEW	Oregon Extension Service: Agricultural information on Klamath County irrigation 1930 NEW
US Congress House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: A half century of progress on the Klamath Federal Reclamation Project May 1957 NEW	U.S. Department of the Interior: Preliminary 4(e) Conditions - Reclamation Reservation on the Klamath Project Section B of the Klamath Hydroelectric Project Documents, Docket No. P2082 Jan 26, 2007

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