Yurok Tribe challenges feds’ revised priorities for Klamath Project
The Yurok Tribe and other plaintiffs on Friday asked a San Francisco federal judge to once again intervene in a long-running conflict with the feds over water releases from the Klamath Irrigation Project in Northern California after the Trump administration said last year that irrigation should take priority over threatened salmon species. The Klamath Project supplies water to more than 225,000 acres of farmland and two wildlife refuges in the Klamath Basin along the Oregon-California border. But critics say the project has decimated the local Chinook and Coho salmon population. … Senior U.S. District Judge William Orrick didn’t indicate on Friday how he might rule on the tribe’s motion for summary judgment.
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