Letters opposing the National Park Service (NPS)-preferred  Alternative Plan C to develop the WWII Japanese Relocation Camp. With the current lawsuit by the Japanese Tule Lake Committee against our Tulelake Airport, Modoc County, and City of Tulelake, NPS encouraging tours to be conducted on the airport throughout the day, efforts to buy more land for their monument, etc, our community opposes the NPS multimillion $ plan to develop 1400 acres already acquired for their monument.
*Letter from U.S. Congressman LaMalfa to National Park Service regarding Alternatives for developing WWII Japanese Relocation Camp, Tule Lake Unit of WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument General Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (GMP/EA) posted 5/29/17.
* Letter from Modoc County to NPS regarding Alternatives for WWII Tule Lake Unit Valor in the Pacific NPS GMP and EA, posted 5/29/17
*Letter from Siskiyou County to National Park Service regarding Alternatives for developing WWII Tule Lake Unit Valor in the Pacific NPS GMP and EA posted 5/29/17
* Letter from Macys Flying Service, Tulelake, to their community regarding NPS General Management Plan for Tulelake WWII Japanese relocation camp
* Letter from Tulelake Growers Association to National Park Service regarding Tule Lake Unit of WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument General Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (GMP/EA) posted 5/29/17.
* Letter from Tulelake Irrigation District to National Park Service regarding Alternatives for developing WWII Tule Lake Unit Valor in the Pacific NPS GMP and EA posted 5/29/17
* Letter from City of Tulelake to NPS regarding Alternatives for WWII Tule Lake Unit Valor in the Pacific NPS GMP and EA, posted 5/29/17
* HERE for KBC News Japanese relocation camp/Tulelake airport page

*Tule Lake Committee website, where our community of WWI and WWII veterans and their families are called "white supremists." 

California Farm Bureau Federation Legislative Review 5/26/17. Welcome to California! " would require California to enforce the federal Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act (ESA), and their implementing regulations and policies as were in place on January 1, 2016 or January 1, 2017, whichever version is the most stringent...", "...requires employers to demand search warrants for ICE enforcement and to notify the Labor Commissioner and employees and their representatives about ICE enforcement and its results. Penalties for violations would range from $10,000 to $25,000 per violation," "... restricts employers’ efforts to ascertain a job applicant’s past criminal history and elect to not hire the applicant due to that history,"  "requires an employer with 20 or more employees within a 75-mile radius to provide 12 weeks of protected parental leave to bond with a new child after that child’s birth, adoption or foster care placement," " would create a state-operated single-payer universal health insurance program intended to provide health care to all California residents," "would expand the extraordinary values, such as scenic, recreational, fishery, wildlife, historical, cultural, geological, ecological, hydrological, botanical, or other similar values to preserve rivers in their free-flowing state designated as wild and scenic under the California Wild and Scenic Rivers Act."

Titus 3 1-7

160K acres covered in Klamath 'Takings' class action, H&N 5/26/17.

Upper Basin water: Talk or litigate? Which? Let's talk, by Randall Kizer for H&N 5/21/17. "The Wood River’s bank are full of water and, yet, the valley’s irrigators are shut off due to a call of (Klamath) tribal instream water rights...We agreed to just about everything the Tribes demanded...upper basin landowners have agreed to retire thousands of acres of irrigated land and built thousands of feet of fencing along streams, rivers and creeks...The Tribes are angry. They were promised funds for economic development, land in the Mazama Forest and dam removal in the KBRA..."

Tulelake Irrigation District well water levels 5/19/17

(Klamath) Tribes call for agreement termination, H&N 5/18/17. "At a minimum, Gentry said any framework for a settlement proposal must adequately address treaty resource reintroduction, restoration and protection resulting in sustainable and harvestable treaty resources that will support the meaningful exercise of treaty rights. 'This must include return of homelands and co-management of land and resources that affect treaty resources...' "
* Klamath Tribes Negative Notice sent to Department of Interior to end Upper Klamath Basin Comprehensive Agreement, UKBCA
* Upper Klamath irrigators response to Klamath Tribes Negative Notice sent to DOI to end UKBCA 4/28/17.

Increased flows from lake expected for Klamath River, H&N 5/14/17. "Karuk Tribe and Oregon State University researchers take samples from four different sites along the Klamath River on a weekly basis to determine the number of parasites per liter, according to Bottcher..."

Water deliveries begin at Crater Lake, H&N, posted to KBC 5/28/17. Chiloquin to sell water to Crater Lake, 2.5 million gallons, H&N 5/9/17.  Crater Lake water is shut off "...by a call on water made by the Klamath Tribes...the city council agreed to sell water to the park for $0.015 per gallon, an estimated total cost of $37,500 during May and June...6,000-gallon trucks would make the trip to and from the park an estimated eight to 10 times per day...The city reserved the discretion to extended water sales through July and August as needed." Crater Lake to ship water starting next week, "...$400,000 to haul water.." "...Rim Drive may not open until mid-June due to higher-than-average snow levels..." H&N 5/12/17 Crater Lake to haul water for visitors, Delivery costs top $400,000 for May, June, H&N 5/7/17. "..Under the Treaty of 1864, the Klamath Tribes have the right to hunt, fish, trap and gather on former reservation land. The Klamath Tribes have legally determined claims that provide for in-stream flows sufficient for the protection of riparian habitat during spring runoff months." KBC NOTE: The Klamath Tribes sold their reservation. This year was above average snow, and the rivers flooded.

Wolf opponents, proponents face off in Portland, H&N 5/23/17.

From Frank Tallerico: Paul's letter to the Philippians 4:8-9: Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you." Happy Mother's Day

***Secretary Zinke Requests Comments on National Monument Designations Made Since 1996, OFS, 5/12/17. (includes Cascade-Siskiyou expansion)
***View Federal Register Notice with List of National Monuments Subject to Review
***Cascade-Siskiyou Monument Myths and Facts, by American Forest Resource Council May 2017
***Wyden and Merkley Push Back Against Trump's National Monument Review, OFS, 5/12/17

Opposition expressed to Lava Beds status change, H&N, 5/12/17. "A recurring theme was the fear the Japanese-American group opposing fencing of the Tulelake Airport might try to incorporate expansion of the Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument with legislation re-designating Lava Beds...The committee recently refiled a lawsuit against Modoc County for plans to develop a fence around the Tule Lake Airport."  "Mickey Gimmel, Pit River Tribe chairman, mostly focused his sometimes angry comments on concerns about the Medicine Lake Highlands, which border the park and have been considered for geothermal development. “You better take us seriously and talk to us,” he barked. “We can be in opposition or we could be with you.”

'In the judge's hands now,' Attorneys deliver closing arguments in (Klamath 2001 Water) 'Takings' case, H&N, 5/10/17.

California Farm Bureau Federation Friday Legislative Review, 5/12/17. Millions of $ to State Water Resources, Fish and Wildlife, Cal Fire,  "Governor is proposing a significant increase in funds to cover the cost of Proposition 64 (recreational cannabis legalization) implementation." $94.6 Million, $3M to promote California Grown, minimum salary overtime increase, "significant new mandates on agricultural water suppliers, costing districts hundreds of millions of dollars..." well permit mandates.....

 Matthew 5:8: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God

An old injustice won't justify a newer one, H&N letter to editor by David Porter Misso, posted to KBC 5/5/17. "Great news for lawyer fees, thanks to the (Japanese) Tule Lake Committee / TLC and its new and improved lawsuit to shut down our Tulelake Airport and close the largest non-governmental business in this part of Modoc County...The TLC must start working to improve their anti-rural prejudice and help build a top notch educational visitor center..."

CALIFORNIA - CFBF Friday Legislative Review 5/5/17: restricts an employer’s ability to consider an applicant’s criminal or conviction history in making employment decisions, water measurement, streambed clarification, expand values to preserve rivers in their free-flowing state designated as wild and scenic under the California Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, imposes significant new mandates on agricultural water suppliers, costing districts hundreds of millions of dollars, well permit mandates, drinking water fund..