Secure Our Food 4/19/24 Secure Our Food 4/19/24

KPDRA Applications Now Open

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – The Klamath Project Drought Response Agency (KPDRA) is currently accepting applications for the 2024 No Irrigation Program (Program), which will provide financial assistance to local farmers and ranchers who typically irrigate with water from the Klamath Project.

Secure Our Food 4/17/24 Secure Our Food 4/17/24

Allocation Frustrations Continue

Despite favorable conditions in the Klamath Basin, irrigators say the initial federal water allocation falls short of what farmers in the Klamath Water Project should receive this year.

Secure Our Food 4/9/24 Secure Our Food 4/9/24

Tri-Counties Request Full Allocation

On April 5, 2024, Tri-Counties Commissioners and Supervisors of Klamath, Modoc, and Siskiyou Counties submitted a letter to Camille Touton, Commissioner of the US Bureau of Reclamation, requesting full allocation for Klamath Project Irrigators.

Secure Our Food 3/25/24 Secure Our Food 3/25/24

Flowing Once Again

KLAMATH BASIN – Tulelake Irrigation District (TID), in partnership with Ducks Unlimited, will turn on Pumping Plant “D” on Monday, March 25, 2024. This action will send water from Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) to Lower Klamath NWR through the 6,600-foot-long Tule Lake Tunnel for the first time in four years.

Secure Our Food 7/24/23 Secure Our Food 7/24/23

Grasshoppers Destroy Basin Crops

KLAMATH BASIN - For several weeks now, as the morning cool turns to the heat of the day, vast swarms of voracious grasshoppers have been pouring out of the dry, largely barren Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge into the surrounding irrigated farm fields around Merrill and Tulelake. Concerns are growing that crop damage could extend into the millions of dollars.