After a dry year, water flows to Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge
For over a century, the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge has been crucial habitat for birds on their grueling annual migrations between destinations as distant as Alaska and Mexico. … For years, the refuge has been last in line for scarce water, after farmers and endangered fish. As the drought deepened and wetlands dried out, the lack of water led to massive outbreaks of avian botulism, killing tens of thousands of ducks, geese swans and other migratory water birds. … Last week, that water started flowing into the refuge.