Our mission is to restore and protect the uniquely diverse ecosystem and promote the sustainable management of natural resources in the entire Klamath River watershed. We believe this will be accomplished with actions and legislation that integrate sound and proven techniques based on tribal knowledge, local experience and the best of Western Science. Dams and Salmon Extinction Klamath Inter-tribal Fish & Water Commission Klamath Restoration Council Box 214 Somes Bar, CA 95568 • 530 627 3054 Klamath Restoration Calendar Note: the Karuk Tribe assumed financial sporshorship of the KRC and PelicanNetwork moved on – so this information is out of date. Friday, July 8 KRC General Meeting 10 a.m. Karuk Community Center, Orleans, CA successful – notes & video available next week July 18-23 Salmon River Cooperative Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead Dives September 16, 17 & 18 River Trip & Film Festivaluly20   Klamath Basin Conservation Reports and studies by member organizations Salmon Gallery Vintage and Current Photos of Klamath Bioregion Photos by Humboldt Historical Society and Yurok Tribe Bring Home The Salmon Klamath River Dam Removal Campaign Our Klamath Watershed Map Participate in the Restoration Vision Photos from our formation meeting June 18, 2004

What happens to the Klamath? The Klamath is the only major river in America that improves in water quality the closer it gets to the ocean. All photos by Jack Ellwanger unless otherwise credited	Click above right photo for larger version
	Where do the waters of the Klamath go instead of the becoming part of the river? And, when it is the Klamath River, what happens to it before it flows into the lower basin in such a degraded state?
Reports Analyzing the effects of present policy, and presenting conservation cases for change   Economic Benefits of a Restored Fishery and Watershed – a Study Outline for KRC Center for Environmental Economic Development   Economic Analysis of a Restored Lower Klamath Fishery Aaron Douglas, US Geological Society Coping with Competition for Water: Irrigation, Economic Growth, and the Ecosystem in the Upper Klamath Basin ECONorthwest The Struggle to Save Salmon in the Klamath Basin Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) Ratepayer Rip-Off – The Power Subsidy Issue in the Upper Basin Oregon Natural Resources Council Refuges In Peril – Fish, Wildlife and the Klamath Water Crisis – WaterWatch

Klamath Restoration Benefits Plan Dare to dream. What if there was a restored native fishery and watershed? You can help shape the dream and make it happen. If we fix it, they will come. We want you. KRC will conduct a long-range planning process for the Klamath region restoration plan. An outline for the process has been developed by Center for Environmental Economic Development Report: Klamath Restoration Benefits.  Fill out this form, submit it and become part of the restoration dream team. I want to participate in the Economic Benefits Planning Process Our organization may contribute. Send more information. I am interested in these aspects of a restored native fishery and Klamath watershed: Local economies – how places in the Klamath Basin will benefit Commercial fishing – who will benefit from a healthy fishery Sportfishing – value to local communities with restored recreational activities associated with sportfishing Wildlife Refuge Restoration Natural and Cultural Heritage – celebrating earlier cultures and our natural setting I want to work on the Natural and Heritage Guide Social capital – how communities will improve Human capital – how improved skills will help communities – Tribal employment, skills, training, fishing and rafting guides and other jobs and multiplier effects in the region Constructed Capital – human created improvements, restoration projects, services, facilities Comments My Name My Email Address My Phone Number (optional) Call Me My organization We are affiliated with Klamath Restoration Council. We are not affiliated with Klamath Restoration Council. We will consider participating with Klamath Restoration Council. Contact: I operate a business. I suggest you contact businesses: My interest, and participation is as an individual. I want to make a contribution.

KRC Participating Organizations Karuk Tribe Pelican Network Water Watch Northcoast Environmental Center Salmon River Restoration Council Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) Oregon Natural Resources Council South Fork Trinity Land Conservancy Redwoods and Rivers Rafting Mattole Restoration Council Friends of the Eel River California Save Our Streams Council Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) Lomakatsi Spillway Klamath Basin Coalition Yurok Tribe Radio KIDE-FM – Native People’s Media Trees Foundation Friends of the River Piercy Watershed Association Mid Klamath Watershed Council Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center Klamath Forest Alliance California Trout Chaltasom Cultural Restoration Ecotrust Klamath Basin Tribal Water Quality Work Group Join Us Yes. I support native fishery restoration, and want to join the Klamath Restoration Council . My name is My email address Comment and groups you participate with:   Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA)  Klamath Basin Coalition Photo Essay J.C.Boyle Dam by Steve and Katherine Pedery Click the map for larger version

Two Wilderness Society Reports Klamath Basin:  A Western Everglades Suppressed Government Report Shows Klamath Irrigation is a Bad Investment Local conservationists in the Mid Klamath conduct a prescribed burn to restore oak woodland. This is the beginning of a project that may become a community forest. click the image for a bigger version Zeke Grader, founder of Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, with three daughters of Jeff Mitchell, former Chair, Klamath Tribes.   White Paper on Behalf of the Karuk Tribe of California By Dr. John Salter, Consulting Anthropologist The Effect of the Klamath Hydroelectric Project on Traditional Resource Uses and Cultural Patterns of the Karuk People within the Klamath River Corridor First Salmon – Cultural Riverscape by Thomas King Altered Diet – Effects of less salmon by Kari Norgaard Environmental Management: American Indian Knowledge & the Problem of Sustainability By Leaf Hillman and Dr. John Salter Photo by Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources Karuk Tribe is removing thousands of miles of logging roads and restoring watersheds with holistic methodology that rehabilitates spawning habitats. In light of the alarming reduction of native fish populations in the Klamath system, the Karuk restoration work is critical to the preservation of native salmonids. Karuk Cultural Ecosystem Watershed Restoration Send me the CD with the two videos My Name My Email My mail address News of the events and aftereffects of the Klamath Fish Kill Federal whistleblower quits, alleges politicization of science – Michael Kelly statement • Associated Press Did Bush underwrite the fish kill to elect a Senator? • Wall Street Journal Report supports critics of water diversion • NY Times Salmon kill blamed on water sent to farmers • SJ Mercury Tapping the Trinity • Oregonian Palo Alto pulls out of power users suit – Port of Oakland pulls out, too Yuroks and the River • SF Chronicle story More than 60,000 salmon died in the Lower Klamath in September, 2002 because of poor water conditions. Ron Reed, (left) Karuk Tribe Cultural Biologist, and traditional fisher, keeps the ancestral dipnet practice alive – but it is mostly ceremonial as the native fish populations have drastically plummeted 1955 photo (below) shows intense fishing activity at the mouth of the Klamath.

Information sources on the web Tide•Pool – News for the Rain Forest Coast Salmon: Spirit of the Land and Sea Wild Salmon News For the Sake of the Salmon Salmon Home (Riverdale School) Save Salmon and Steelhead • Idaho Rivers United State of the Salmon – Ecotrust

Tribe Fights Dams to Get Diet Back Karuks Trying to Regain Salmon Fisheries and Their Health: Washington Post Story 9th Court Restores Trinity Flow Salmon River Restoration Council Local’s Website – The River Voice

KRC formation meeting  Photo by Margie Whitnah Check out our Salmon Gallery Photos of Klamath Bioregion

 

Links and contacts
Glen H. Spain Northwest Regional Director Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) PO Box 11170, Eugene, OR 97440-3370 (541)689-2000 Fax: (541)689-2500 http://www.pcffa.org http://www.pcffa.org/klamath.htm Zeke Grader (415) 561 5080 Northcoast Environmental Center http://www.yournec.org 707 822 6918 Steve Pedery • WaterWatch steve@waterwatch.org 213 SW Ash, Suite 208 Portland, OR 97204 Tel: 503-295-4039 Fax: 503-295-2791	Tom Stokely Trinity County Natural Resources Senior Planner, 98A Clinic Ave., PO Box 156, Hayfork, CA 96041-0156 530 628 5949 tstokely@trinityalps.net Member, California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout Jill Geist Supervisor, County of Humboldt jgeist@co.humboldt.ca.us (707) 476 2395 Emelia Berol Humboldt Watershed Council ember@humboldt1.com Yurok Tribal Fisheries Dave Hillemaier naypooie@northcoast.com	Jack Ellwanger PelicanNetwork Box 214 Salmon River Outpost Somes Bar, CA 95568 530 627 3054 rocinante@pelicannetwork.net www.pelicannetwork.net Friends of Trinity River http://www.fotr.org Byron Leydecker Jimmy Smith Supervisor, County of Humboldt jrsmith@co.humboldt.ca.us 707 476 2391 Mattole Restoration Council Freeman House lfhouse@inreach.com
Oregon Natural Resources Council 5825 N. Greeley Avenue Portland, OR 97217 Telephone: 503 283 6343 Fax: 503 283 0746 www.onrc.org/programs/klamath.html Joseph Orozco, Station Manager Radio KIDE-FM P.O. Box 1220 Hoopa, CA 95546 530-625-4245 managerkide@hoopa-nsn.gov Friends of the Eel River PO Box 2305 Redway, CA 95560 707 923 2146 www.eelriver.org	Sydney King and Jeff Hedin Piercy Watershed Association spikemouse@ecoisp.com Trees Foundation Po Box 2202 Redway, CA 95560 707 923 4377 707 923 4427 fax http://www.treesfoundation.org Mid Klamath Watershed Council Blythe Reis mail@sandybar.com PO Box 347 Orleans, CA  95556 Phone: 530-627-3379 Fax: 530-627-3880	Bob Hunter WaterWatch 27 N. Ivy Medford, OR 97501 541-772-6116 www.waterwatch.org bob@waterwatch.org S. Craig Tucker, Ph.D. Outreach Director Friends of the River 915 20th Street Sacramento, CA 95814 916-442-3155 x205 www.friendsoftheriver.org Salmon Stroich Program Coordinator Klamath Forest Alliance 530.469.3221 wildsalmon@starband.net
Rhoby Cook, Director Northern California Cultural Communications P.O. Box 650 Hoopa, CA 95546 530-625-4222 www.flickerfeather.org Reuven Walder and Todd Steiner Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) PO Box 400 Forest Knolls, CA 94933 (415) 488-0370 (415) 488-0372 Fax Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) Spawn@Spawnusa.org http://www.spawnusa.org/ Michael Charlton Redwoods and Rivers Rafting PO Box 4636, Arcata, CA. 95518 1-800-429-0090 www.redwoods-rivers.com Kristi Shelloner Independent Media Consultant Hoopa Valley orleans@pcweb.net	David Rose South Fork Trinity Land Conservancy Wildriver.trinity@starband.net Tim Stroshane Spillway www.spillwaynews.net P.O. Box 8362 Berkeley, CA 94707-8362 stroshan@spillwaynews.net ph: 510/524-6313 fax: 510/528-8645 Dave Hankin dgh1@humboldt.edu Michael Ives Humboldt State mives59@aol.com Regina Chichizol Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center www.kswild.org PO Box 102 Ashland, OR 97520 541-488-5789 PO Box 332 Williams, OR 97544 541-846-9273	Ann Vileisis Conservation Chair Kalmiopsis Audubon Society Port Orford, OR- tel: 541-332-0261 annvil@harborside.com www.harborside.com/~pfandha/audubon Petey Brucker Salmon River Restoration Council www.srrc.org pbrucker@srrc.org 530-462-4665 E.B. Duggan “D” Fishing Guide PO Box 867 Willow Creek, CA 95573 530 629 3554 www.willowcreekchamber.com yen2fish@netzero.net Ronda Marshall (in memory) gotwater111@yahoo Michael Meuser Clary-Meuser Research Network www.mapcruzin.com meuser@mapcruzin.com
Watercolor by Lil, Grade 5, Riverdale School, Portland, Oregon	Check out our Salmon Gallery Photos of Klamath Bioregion Visit Ecotrust Native Programs Klamath Heartlands	Endangered Species Chocolate Company Salmon Bar
Salmon River Outpost Somes Bar General Store Highway 96 95568	Salmon River forever moody and historical	Susan Alexander, an art teacher in Trinity County, wore her Salmon Hat at the Weaverville Salmon Festival. The hat is an art project for children. It will be an art activity in a fourth grade curriculum unit to teach youngsters about the importance of restoring native fisheries.