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Dry Weather Promotes Spread of Disease in Young Klamath Salmon

by Reconnect Klamath | Jun 3, 2021 | Basin Life, Water, Wildlife

Klamath River Salmon can’t seem to catch a break. Yet again, they are fighting to navigate the very river that their spawning cycle depends upon. In addition to the physical obstacle of the dams, rapidly elevating water temperatures, and algal blooms that choke the...

Drought Emergency Faces the Klamath

by Craig Tucker | May 10, 2021 | Water, Agriculture, Basin Life, Tribes, Wildlife

Another massive crisis is mounting in the Klamath Basin this year due to extraordinarily dry hydrologic conditions following several years of prolonged drought. The Basin has faced drought conditions almost every year this past decade (2020, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013,...

Springers: The Determined Delicacy of the Klamath River – Part II

by Reconnect Klamath | Apr 19, 2021 | Wildlife

See part 1 here. As we work to protect the last remaining Spring Chinook, molecular biologists have now confirmed what area tribes have known all along – Spring Chinook are genetically distinct from their fall-run cousins. UC Davis researchers have discovered a small...

Springers: The Determined Delicacy of the Klamath River

by Reconnect Klamath | Apr 19, 2021 | Tribes, Wildlife

Salmon connoisseurs the world over know that wild spring Chinook salmon (Springers) are among the most delicious things that the ocean has to offer. Karuk, Yurok, and Hoopa fishermen prize spring Chinook as their high oil content makes them especially flavorful when...

Freshwater Mussels: The Klamath Basin’s Shelled Little Heroes

by Reconnect Klamath | Apr 19, 2021 | Tribes, Water, Wildlife

The Klamath River is home to many aquatic and amphibious animals that make up an intricate, interdependent ecological community. Various salmon and trout species, green sturgeon, and river otters are some of the more recognizable critters that inhabit the Klamath. But...

Fifth Generation Ranchers Learn to Grow Fish

by Reconnect Klamath | Apr 19, 2021 | Agriculture, Basin Life, Water, Wildlife

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