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.
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.