
As readers of this blog know, I spend a fair amount of time fishing all around the Klamath Basin and have been educating myself on its water and fisheries issues for many years. I think this area should be of interest to Central Oregon residents as the extreme water woes of our neighbors to the south are likely to be visited upon us as well. High Country News currently has a long, somewhat wandering article about water management in the Klamath Basin that might be worth scanning. The part that motivated me to write this post was the mention of “critical groundwater areas”. Coincidentally, I listened to a call by the Oregon Water Resources Department yesterday on the topic of critical groundwater areas, a concept we should all pay attention to.
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