QUESTION #6
How many species of fish and wildlife were affected in the
Klamath Basin by withholding water from our farmland
habitat in 2001?
Answer #6 - c. 433
Question #5 - Who paid for the
Klamath Project that stores water for irrigation, refuges and
fish flows?
a. tribes (BIA), b. fisheries (NMFS), c.
refuges (USFWS), d. environmental groups
(ONRC, Audubon, PCFFA, Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, KFA),
e. irrigators
Answer #5 -
e. IRRIGATORS ONLY. Paid in full.
Question #4
-
In
2002, which group did NOT cut back their use of water? They used
MORE WATER than they had in the past
40 years.
a. farmers b. tribes c. refuge
Answer #4 - c. refuge
Question
#3 - Before the Klamath Project was built in 1906,
how much water from Clear Lake/Lost River flowed into Klamath
Lake and Klamath River:
Answer - None,
except on flood years. Before the Klamath Project's diversion
canals were built, ALL the water remained in Tule Lake. Tule
Lake was in a closed basin.
Question #2 -
How much more water is there "to go around" for fish and
farms after converting 94,539 acres of irrigated ag land to
wetlands in the Upper Klamath Basin?
a. 20000 acre-ft (AF) b. 50,000 AF c. other
Answer #2 -
c.
other. One acre irrigated ag land uses approximately 2 to
2½ Acre Feet (AF) water. One acre wetlands uses 4 to 4½ AF
water. Wetlands use over 2ce as much water as ag lands. 94,539
acres converted UK farmland times 2(modest estimate) = OVER
189,078 AF MORE WATER IS TAKEN FROM THE FISH AND FARMS BY
CREATING WETLANDS. (figures from Klamath Relief Fund office)
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Question #1 -
With the promise of more water for
fish, tribes and agriculture:
#1 How much private property has been
sold in Upper Klamath Basin primarily to conservancies (most of
which becomes purchased by the federal government)???
Answer #1 - Lands taken out irrigated
agricultural uses
and converted to wetlands as the primary usage
above Upper Klamath Lake
Submitted by Edward Bartell
The following is a list of lands, which have been removed from
agricultural production as the primary land management, above
Upper Klamath Lake.
Cattle production peeked in the Upper Basin in 1960, the start
of the major decline was when the Tribal Grazing lands at
Klamath Marsh was converted to Wetlands under the Management of
US Fish and Wildlife in 1960.
The most dramatic increase in lands taken out of agricultural
production and converted to wetlands has been post 1980.
*TNC Tulana Farms East (ADJ Claim 91) 4,600 Acres (TNC
properties 1980s forward)
*TNC Goose Bay Farms (ADJ Claim 81) - 2,187 Acres
*TNC Sycan Marsh (ADJ Claim 34) - 9,790 Acres
*TNC Brattain Ranch Inc. (ADJ Claim 23) 3,098 Acres
*TNC Sycan Marsh (ADJ Claim 36) 8,255 Acres
*NWR Klamath Marsh 38,766 Acres (1960 major additions in
1989-90)
*NWR Upper Klamath Lake 14,440 Acres (1928)
* Trout Creek Ranch 1,200 Acres
* Private WRP (NRCS) 1,480 Acres
* Wood River Ranch 3,000 Acres (1994)
* Agency Lake Ranch 7,123 Acres
* Runny Y Wetlands 550 Acres
* Lakeside Farms 50 Acres
Total Land changed to
wetland from 94,539 Acres
Agricultural
as primary water usage (above Klamath Lake)
*TNC (The Nature Conservancy) land estimates are from the
Klamath Adjudication process, TNC may have more irrigated lands
that are not in the adjudication. The extent of agricultural use
prior to Upper Klamath Lake NWR is unknown, the rest of the
lands had extensive agricultural use prior to conversion. Agency
Lake Ranch, Wood River Ranch, Lakeside Farms, and Running Y
acres come from 2002 FWS draft Sucker BO. Trout Creek Ranch
acres comes from the National Archives, not all in wetlands. WRP
acres were provided by NRCS