Conservancy Offers Water Storage Plan
American Land Conservancy offered a plan for buying land and water rights in the Klamath Basin--along the California-Oregon border--that would include a site for storing 100,000 acre-feet of water to balance the needs of farming against fish and wildlife.
A drought caused federal officials to shut off most irrigation water this summer to farmland.
The Interior Department, meanwhile, announced that 6,300 acre-feet of water will start flowing Sept. 11 for the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, a major stopping point for migratory birds headed south along the Pacific Flyway.
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