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Category : Bald eagle
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Biological/conference Opinion Regarding the Effects of Operation of the Bureau of Reclamation's Klamath Project on the Endangered Lost River Sucker (Deltistes Luxatus), Endangered Shortnose Sucker (Chasmistes Brevirostris), Threatened Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus) and Proposed Critical Habitat for the Lost River/shortnose Suckers
Author: Final Biological Assessment
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ISBN:
Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Klamath Hydroelectric Project, FERC Project No. 2080-027, Oregon and California
Author: Final Environmental Impact Statement for Hydropower License
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ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Scientific Evaluation of Biological Opinions on Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309083249
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
During 2001, a severe drought occurred in the Klamath River Basin. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) determined that the newly issued biological opinions and their RPAs must prevail; thus, water that would have gone to irrigators was directed almost entirely to attempts to maintain minimum lake levels and minimum flows as prescribed in the two RPAs. The severe economic consequences of this change in water management led DOI to request that the National Research Council (NRC) independently review the scientific and technical validity of the government's biological opinions and their RPAs. The NRC Committee on Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin was formed in response to this request. The committee was charged with filing an interim report after approximately less than 3 months of study and a final report after about 18 months of study. The interim report, which is summarized here, focuses on the biological assessments of the USBR (2001) and the USFWS and NMFS biological opinions of 2001 regarding the effects of Klamath Project operations on the three listed fish species.
Scientific evaluation of biological opinions on endangered and threatened fishes in the Klamath River basin
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Remedies for a New West
Author: Patricia Nelson LimerickPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816549257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This wide-ranging collection of essays is intended to provoke both thought and action. The pieces collected here explore a variety of issues facing the American West—disappearing Native American languages, deteriorating air quality, suburban sprawl, species loss, grassland degradation, and many others—and suggest steps toward “healing.” More than “dealing with” or “solving,” according to the editors, healing addresses not just symptoms but their underlying causes, offering not just a temporary cure but a permanent one. The signs of illness and trauma can seem omnipresent in today’s West: land and soil disrupted from mining, overgrazing, logging, and farming; wildlife habitat reduced and fragmented; native societies disturbed and threatened; open space diminished by cities and suburbs; wilderness destroyed by roads and recreation-seekers. But as these essays suggest, the “treatment program” for healing the West has many healthful side effects. Engaging in the kinds of projects suggested by contributors is therapeutic not only for the environment but for participants as well. Restoration, repair, and recovery can counter symptoms of despair with concentrated doses of promise and possibility. The more “lesions” the West has, this book suggests, the more opportunities there are for westerners to revive and ultimately cure the ailing patient they have helped to create. The very idea of restoring the West to health, contributors and editors contend, unleashes our imaginations, sharpens our minds, and gives meaning to the ways we choose to live our lives. At the same time, acknowledging the profound difficulties of the work that lies ahead immunizes us against our own arrogance as we set about the task of healing the West.
Past and Future Water Use in Pacific Coast States
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Category : Water consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
We examine socioeconomic factors affecting water demand and expected trends in these factors. Based on these trends, we identify past, current, and projected withdrawal of surface water for various uses in Pacific Coast States (California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington), including public, domestic, commercial, industrial, thermoelectric, livestock, and irrigation. Additionally, we identify projected demands for nonconsumptive instream recreational uses of water, such as boating, swimming, and fishing, which can compete with consumptive uses. Allocating limited water resources across multiple users will present water resource managers and policymakers with distinct challenges as water demands increase. To illustrate these challenges, we present a case study of issues in the Klamath Basin of northern California and southern Oregon. The case study provides an example of the issues involved in allocating scarce water among diverse users and uses, and the difficulties policymakers face when attempting to design water allocation policies that require tradeoffs among economic, ecological, and societal values.
General Technical Report PNW-GTR
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ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309090970
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In 1988 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed two endemic fishes of the upper Klamath River basin of Oregon and California, the sucker and the Lost River sucker, as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). In 1997, the National Marine Fisheries Service added the Southern Oregon Northern coastal California (SONCC) coho salmon as a threatened species to the list. The leading factors attributed to the decline of these species were overfishing, blockage of migration, entrainment by water management structures, habitat degradation, nonnative species, and poor water quality. Endangered and Threatened Fishes of the Klamath River Basin addresses the scientific aspects related to the continued survival of coho salmon and shortnose and Lost River suckers in the Klamath River. The book further examines and identifies gaps in the knowledge and scientific information needed for recovery of the listed species and proves an assessment of scientific considerations relevant to strategies for promoting the recovery of those species.
