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.
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.