Chiloquin News

The Klamath Tribes Meeting Notice:

“REGULAR” GENERAL COUNCIL AGENDA

For Saturday November 21, 2009 @ 10:00 a.m.

Administration Auditorium – Chiloquin, OR --

Quorum Count @10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

I. Quorum Count, Call to Order, Invocation, Approve Agenda.

II. 1. “Regular” General Council minutes for August 29, 2009

III. Travel Center – update (Closed session)

IV. Klamath HydroAgreement KHA – brief discussion.

V. Other Business:

1. Motions & Actions from 8/27/09 to 10/22/09

2. Treasurer’s Reports

VI. Adjourn.

*Lunch will be at Kla-Mo-Ya Casino

* The petition submitted by GeorGene Nelson will not be heard at this meeting.

Hello All,

Regrettably I must inform you that I have recently resigned my position as Mayor of Chiloquin and would like to explain my reasons for doing so.

There are plenty of Willamette Valley communities that would warmly greet the Klamath tribes if they came to town to develop manufacturing, retail shopping or a medical center to create jobs and care for tribal members.

Oregon Police are asking for help finding the family of a Reno man killed in a motorcycle accident on Highway 97 north of Chiloquin, Oregon on October 2nd.

CHILOQUIN, Ore. - The names of the two motorcyclists who fell victim to an SUV passing a truck on Highway 97 are being released.

Oregon State Police troopers are continuing the investigation into Friday afternoon's fatal traffic crash that caused the death of two men on a motorcycle and injuries to a Redmond-area couple on Highway 97 north of Chiloquin.

Two people died and two others were seriously injured in a traffic accident today on U.S. 97 north of Chiloquin, Oregon State Police reported.

Associated Press A October 2, 2009 A CHILOQUIN, Ore. -- Oregon State Police say two people have died in a crash involving a motorcycle and a sport utility vehicle.

By Ron Brown A September 25, 2009 A MEDFORD, Ore. - When the clatter of horses hooves and rattle of the wooden wheels gave way to the hiss of steam and the rumble of iron on steel rails, the pace of settlement and development in Southern Oregon took a giant step forward.

The key spawning grounds for what was once the greatest run of salmon on the North Coast are close to being as dry as they have ever been, according to biologists and the U.S. Geological Survey.

As California bakes under a third year of drought, the Scott and Shasta rivers, near the California-Oregon border, have become little more than dry beds of rock and dirt.

Recent measurements showed the water volume in both rivers approaching record lows for this time of year. The two tributaries of the Klamath River are historic breeding grounds for salmon and are considered critical to the recovery of the species.

"Large areas of the (Scott) River have gone completely dry, stranding endangered coho salmon as well as chinook and steelhead in shallow, disconnected pools of water," said Greg King, president of the nonprofit Siskiyou Land Conservancy, which has fought to protect the salmon runs in the Klamath River system.

"This could be the year that causes the coho to go extinct if they can't get upstream in the Scott and Shasta."

The Klamath River dams, located about 30 miles from Ashland, are slated for removal in 2020.

For the past five years, twists and turns on this major river restoration effort have commanded regular headlines in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Times and the Sacramento Bee. The Eureka Times-Standard, located 230 miles from the Klamath dams, covers the issue approximately twice per month.

The Mail Tribune has covered this issue lightly, to say the least.

It concerns us that the Tribune has chosen to use what little ink it has for the Klamath dams on a one-sided "news" story on how two rafting companies feel about this issue.

We learn that dam removal will change rafting runs, but we don't learn how the dams have blocked fish from 300 miles of habitat for nearly a century, or how the dams cause toxic algae blooms so dangerous that hazard signs warn recreationalists not to go in the reservoirs or the river downstream.

After a 77-year-old man reported some man pounding on his home with wooden sticks and breaking his bedroom window late Wednesday night, Klamath County sheriff's deputies found a "highly intoxicated" neighbor passed out in his bed across the street, still holding an 18-inch wooden handle in each hand with a gunshot wound to his arm.

Shari Brown, Klamath Tribes Community Services worker is the mother of the man, 24-year-old Calvin Lee Brown.

County Chairwoman Lynn Peterson and commissioner Bob Austin listen to a staff report on the urban and rural reserves designations for land around Clackamas County on Thursday.

The county's Policy Advisory Committee recommended that the more than 2,000 acres south of the river be designated as a rural reserve, meaning that it could not be added to the Metro urban growth boundary for the next 40 to 50 years. However, in the past few weeks, there has been increased activity by the Klamath Tribes to put the land into trust. This action could lead to the development of 385 acres of French Prairie.

Today the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center filed a lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court, alleging that the Military Order of the Purple Heart in Oakland, Calif., unlawfully discriminated against Marine corporal Morris Blakey when they fired him based upon disabilities sustained during service in the first Gulf War.

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Signs recently went up at access points along much of the Lower Klamath River warning the public of yet another outbreak of toxic algae caused by the low, slow, overheated flow of what was once one of the West's great salmon rivers.

The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong.

Phone : 524-9787, ext. 147 Link : http://www.klamathtribes.org Event Description Taylor David 524-9787, ext.

Portland, OR July 27, 2009 2:50 p.m. Discuss Health officials say a man from Klamath County has died of complications from the swine flu.

The state of Oregon will finance most of the cost of removing four Klamath River dams to help salmon under a bill signed by Gov.

KDRV Staff A July 15, 2009 A SPRAGUE RIVER, Ore. - Klamath County Sheriff's Office investigators say they have found a body, buried in a fresh grave, on an Eastern Oregon woman's private property.