Hoopa and Willow Creek draw their drinking water directly from the Trinity and its tributaries. Both towns are littered with hundreds of individual septic tank systems for homes and businesses. Read More →
The Hoopa Tribal Forestry Department finished a plan for access permits to allow Brianna Carreira’s Bigfoot Rafting company to use Tish Tang to exit the Trinity River during rafting expeditions. Read More →
The Hoopa Valley Tribe’s River Rights Committee met with volunteers and community members on Tuesday, April 9, to make preparations for what will be a large salmon run this year. Read More →
People had plenty to say about changes to fishing regulations when community members, fishermen, fisherwomen, and three Tribal Councilmembers met with the River Rights Committee on Wednesday, March 6. The discussion ranged on everything from the commercial fishing ban, to the fish snagging ban, to suggestions of starting a Fish Camp to pass on fishing skills and traditions to young people. Read More →
The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors is this week considering adoption of a management plan to govern pumping of groundwater for irrigation in Scott Valley. The plan was written almost exclusively by local agricultural interests and has drawn criticism from the Karuk Tribe, a group of commercial fishermen and Klamath Riverkeeper, the Orleans-based environmental group. Read More →
Gold miners on the Salmon River have long seemed inventive. It should come as little surprise, then, that their brethren on the Klamath would come up with a ploy to evade the state’s moratorium on suction dredging. Read More →
New commissioners in Klamath County, the equivalent of supervisors in a California county, have reopened discussions to decide whether or not to cancel an extension for the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (KBRA). An earlier set of commissioners passed the extension a few months ago. Read More →