Klamath Crisis

Veterans returning from both WWI and WWII found opportunity in the Klamath River watershed in southern Oregon and northern California. However, the federal government overall has an unfortunate history of poor leadership in the Klamath Basin. And if Congress doesn't act by December 31, history could repeat itself - affecting both our natural heritage and the hard work of generations of American veterans and families. In 1906, the Bureau of Reclamation began the Klamath Project, building a series of dams, canals and water storage that would redirect rivers and transform the marshy and open rangeland into viable farmland in the Klamath Basin. This aggressive dam-building initiative forever...