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rabbitcruiser · 7 months

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Cool Water

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arcticdementor · 2 years

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Klamath County Oregon voted in favor of a “Greater Idaho” ballot initiative, preliminary election results show today. The counties that have voted in favor of such initiatives now stretch from the Idaho border to the Cascade Mountains, without a break.

The Greater Idaho movement proposes to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include rural Oregon into Idaho so that conservative counties will be governed by a conservative state.

According to preliminary results, with more than half of votes counted, Klamath County, in eastern Oregon, voted 57% in favor, but southwestern Oregon did not approve: Douglas County voted 53% in opposition, and Josephine County voted 51% in opposition. The leader of the Greater Idaho movement, Mike McCarter, reacted to the poor showing in western Oregon by saying “that’s their decision to make, but eastern Oregon has consistently voted in favor and so we want eastern Oregon’s request to join Idaho to be heard.”

Now almost half of Oregon’s territory has voted in favor. Similar initiatives have been approved by voters in nine of the fifteen eastern Oregon counties that are included in the proposal. The nine counties that have voted in favor have 60% of the population of those 15 eastern Oregon counties. More counties are expected to vote in November, including Wallowa County and Morrow County, according to the movement’s website, greateridaho.org.

#greateridaho.org #greater idaho #oregon #klamath county #from may

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pickleweed2 · 3 months

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Trinity River along highway 96, before it's meeting with the Klamath

Weitchepec, California

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eopederson2 · 3 months

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Babe, Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox, Trees of Mystery, Klamath, California, 2014.

Stretching the definition of the PNW for this tourist attraction just south of the border in California.

#sculpture #ox #babe #paul bunyan #tourist trap #trees of mystery #klamath #del norte county #california #2014 #photographers on tumblr

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valhikes · 7 months

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Russian Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, California

Day 2: Tagging the top of Etna Mountain and then stopping by Meeks Meadow Lake and Smith Lake (by trail that isn't) and finally Paynes Lake.

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pcttrailsidereader · 2 years

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Darn . . . the McKinney Fire Closes The PCT and Much More

From its start on Friday, the McKinney Fire in Northern California had burned 30,000 acres by mid-day Saturday and 51,500 acres by Sunday morning and shows no sign of slowing. A 110-mile section of the PCT has been closed by the Forest Service (from Etna Summit at mile 1600 to the Mt. Ashland Campground at mile 1710).

The McKinney Fire is burning north of Etna and Fort Jones, California. The China 2 Fire is burning ~2 miles west of the community Seiad Valley. The weather conditions, including lots of lightning, are leading to extreme fire behavior and dangerous conditions.

Over the weekend, many PCT hikers were evacuated from the trail. The Jackson County Search and Rescue teams reported rescuing dozens of hikers and transporting them by bus to safety.

Excessive heat, winds, and now lightning promise to exacerbate the situation. So as we begin August, fire has once again impacted the wild lands of the West and the PCT experience of many.

Despite drought conditions in Northern California, late rains and snow through June and even early July gave us some hope that this kind of fire would not happen so soon. However, the other reality of climate change is the excessively hot and dry days that quickly dry out vegetation and create conditions prime for such a fire. Over the past week, temps have soared to as high as 115 in the valleys.

#Seiad Valley #McKinney fire #Klamath National Forest #Trail Closure #Jackson County Search and Rescue #Northern California

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apxnproperty · 9 months

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#land for sale in klamath county oregon #land for sale in klamath county #land for sale klamath county oregon #land for sale klamath county #klamath county land for sale #klamath county land #klamath county oregon land for sale

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wound-dresser-fan · 2 years

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Battle Belongs

Shaken, Jehoshaphat prayed. He went to God for help… 2 Chronicles 20 What a week it has been! There is nothing quite like facing the dragon of wildfire, and realizing just how helpless you are to do ANYTHING but fall to your knees, and, with the Word of God to stand on? Boldly ask The Mighty God for miracle upon miracle! That is exactly what my week has been: Praying for our courageous…

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#2 Chronicles 20 #code red #featured #Klamath River #McKinney Wildfire #Siskiyou County #Yreka

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kvetchlandia · 11 months

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Dorothea Lange Was a Nebraska Farmer, Now a Migrant Worker, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon 1939

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eregyrn-falls · 1 month

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Yurok tribal members lead a redwood canoe tour on the lower Klamath River on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Klamath, Calif. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

(I could have sworn I read this in a post on here, but I just cannot find it anywhere. So here it is... maybe again for some folks.)

California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush to get site to serve as gateway to redwoods

By Associated Press Laguna Beach

PUBLISHED 4:54 PM PT Mar. 19, 2024

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California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year.

The tribe signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with California and the National Park Service for 125 acres in Humboldt County to be transferred to the Yurok in 2026 after the restoration of salmon habitat Officials say the tribe will be the first Native people to co-manage returned land with the National Park Service The arrangement with the Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League is part of a growing Land Back movement It seeks to return Indigenous homelands to descendants of those who inhabited those areas long before European settlers arrived

The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League.

The agreement “starts the process of changing the narrative about how, by whom and for whom we steward natural lands,” Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League, said in a statement.

The tribe will take ownership in 2026 of 125 acres near the tiny Northern California community of Orick in Humboldt County after restoration of a local tributary, Prairie Creek, is complete under the deal. The site will introduce visitors to Yurok customs, culture and history, the tribe said.

The area is home to the world’s tallest treees — some reaching more than 350 feet. It’s about a mile from the Pacific coast and adjacent to the Redwood National and State Parks, which includes one national park and three California state parks totaling nearly 132,000 acres.

The return of the land — named ’O Rew in the Yurok Language — more than a century after it was stolen from California’s largest tribe is proof of the “sheer will and perseverance of the Yurok people,” said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director. “We kind of don’t give up.”

For the tribe, redwoods are considered living beings and traditionally only fallen trees have been used to build their homes and canoes.

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This drone photo taken Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, shows the site of a salmon restoration project at Prairie Creek, which runs from Redwood National and State Parks, Calif., and flows through land that will be returned to the Yurok Tribe. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood National and State Parks to manage it,” Clayburn said. “This is work that we’ve always done, and continued to fight for, but I feel like the rest of world is catching up right now and starting to see that Native people know how to manage this land the best.”

The property is at the heart of the tribe’s ancestral land and was taken in the 1800s to exploit its old-growth redwoods and other natural resources, the tribe said. Save the Redwoods League bought the property in 2013 and began working with the tribe and others to restore it.

Much of the property was paved over by a lumber operation that worked there for 50 years and also buried Prairie Creek, where salmon would swim upstream from the Pacific to spawn.

A growing Land Back movement has been returning Indigenous homelands to the descendants of those who lived there for millennia before European settlers arrived. That has seen Native American tribes taking a greater role in restoring rivers and lands to how they were before they were expropriated.

Last week, a 2.2-acre parking lot was returned to the Ohlone people where they established the first human settlement beside San Francisco Bay 5,700 years ago. In 2022, more than 500 acres of redwood forest on the Lost Coast were returned to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a group of 10 tribes.

The ’O Rew property represents just a tiny fraction of the more than 500,000 acres of the ancestral land of the Yurok, whose reservation straddles the lower 44 miles of the Klamath River. The Yurok tribe is also helping lead efforts in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history along the California-Oregon border to restore the Klamath and boost the salmon population.

Plans for ‘O Rew include a traditional Yurok village of redwood plank houses and a sweat house. There also will be a new visitor and cultural center displaying scores of sacred artefacts from deerskins to baskets that have been returned to the tribe from university and museum collections, Clayburn said.

The center, which will include information on the redwoods and forest restoration, also will serve as a hub for the tribe to carry out their traditions, she said.

It will add more than a mile of new trails, including a new segment of the California Coastal Trail, with interpretive exhibits. The trails will connect to many of the existing trails inside the parks, including to popular old-growth redwood groves.

This drone photo taken on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, shows a salmon restoration project at Prairie Creek, which runs from Redwood National and State Parks, Calif., and flows through land that will be returned to the Yurok Tribe. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

The tribe had already been restoring salmon habitat for three years on the property, building a meandering stream channel, two connected ponds and about 20 acres of floodplain while dismantling a defunct mill site. Crews also planted more than 50,000 native plants, including grass-like slough sedge, black cottonwood and coast redwood trees.

Salmon were once abundant in rivers and streams running through these redwood forests. But dams, logging, development and drought — due in part to climate change — have destroyed the waterways and threatened many of these species. Last year, recreational and commercial king salmon fishing seasons were closed along much of the West Coast due to near-record low numbers of the iconic fish returning to their spawning grounds.

Thousands of juvenile coho and chinook salmon and steelhead have already returned to Prairie Creek along with red-legged frogs, northwestern salamanders, waterfowl and other species.

Redwoods National Park Superintendent Steve Mietz praised the restoration of the area and its return to the tribe, saying it is “healing the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest.”

#redwoods #redwoods national park #yurok #yurok tribe #national parks #california #environmentalism #conservation #indigenous stories #some good news!#ids in alt

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onenicebugperday · 1 year

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@bgs-cave-o-thots submitted: Hi! This isn't an ID request, I just wanted to talk about a bug phenomenon that happens near where I live. I remember being shocked when I was younger and learned that this doesn't happen everywhere, and I think that's what gave me a fascination for these bugs instead of only seeing them as a nuisance.

I've no clue what the scientific name is, but I see them called the Klamath Midge after where they're primarily found (Klamath County, Oregon). They're small, bright green, non-biting midges, and when they're in season they make dense swarms that can be the size of city blocks. People have to sweep them off windowsills and porches every morning or they'll pile up, because they only live for I think a couple days. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of my own to demonstrate the sheer amount of the lil guys there are, but if you google "klamath midge" there's plenty of images that give you an idea.

I also have a question about these midges that I was wondering if you or your followers might be able to answer. I've lived with these things coming out every year for most of my life but no one I've ever asked knew the answer for sure: what do these guys eat? Or do they even eat as adults at all??

Hello! Klamath midges are non-biting midges in the genus Chironomus. Sounds like utahensis is the exact species. Midge larvae are aquatic and feed on algae and other organic detritus. The adults were once thought not to eat at all, but apparently newer research says they feed sparingly on things like nectar, pollen, and honeydew. But you're right, they only live a couple of days! Just long enough to mate.

I couldn't find any creative commons photos of the swarms to share, but I do think it's worth googling for those who are curious! That's a lot of bugs.

#animals #insects #bugs #submission #midge #non biting midge #Chironomus #klamath midge

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rabbitcruiser · 1 month

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Clouds (No. 1242)

Lake Ewauna, Klamath Falls

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beardedmrbean · 1 year

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The secessionist movement by conservative Oregon counties seeking to join Idaho continues to gather steam.

"Residents in Morrow County and Wheeler County have voted in favor of a measure related to moving the state line between Oregon and Idaho, joining nine previous eastern Oregon counties to vote in support of 'Greater Idaho," KPTV reported. "The Oregon Secretary of State website shows on Wednesday afternoon that of 800 votes in Wheeler County, 58% were in favor, and of the 3,837 votes in Morrow County, 60% were in favor."

Harney County joined the movement in the 2021 election, joining, "Lake, Grant, Baker, Malheur, Union, Sherman, and Jefferson

According to the group pushing the idea, Citizens for Greater Idaho, there are now 11 counties that have supported the idea at the ballot box: Baker, Grant, Harney, Klamath, Jefferson, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Union, and Wheeler. The group says Wallowa will vote next.

KPTV noted, "like many of the previous votes, the measures approved on Tuesday did not directly address moving the state border."

There are significant procedural steps to allow the proposal to occur.

"For 'Greater Idaho' to become a reality, the state legislatures of both Oregon and Idaho would need to approve of the change, and that approval would then also need to be approved by Congress," KPTV reported. "Additionally, Idaho’s state constitution in Article XVII sets the name and boundaries of the state, which would need a state-wide vote to amend."

Citizens for Greater Idaho leader Mike McCarter released a statement following the vote.

“We call on the Legislature to let each half of the state go their separate ways in peace," McCarter said. "If western Oregon doesn’t like the risk of being forced to accept the gubernatorial candidate it voted against, then it should simply stop holding our counties captive in this unhappy marriage. Actually, it’s not even as dramatic as a divorce because we’re not breaking up a family."

#nunyas news #good luck up there

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itlivesproject · 1 year

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I'm playing It lives in the woods again in prep for finally playing ITW (i got my computer back so I'm not just stuck on ios anymore yay) and lily mentions one of the books "records of Klamath county". now It lives takes place in oregon, and I'm very excited to tell you that Klamath county is in fact a real place, and my fiance used to live there actually, and we both currently reside just outside of portland OR which is also mentioned a few times in the games. Unfortunately Westchester itsself is made up, but there is a town called Winchester! Idk if there was really a point to this ask other than gushing about some location lore for you lol but there we go!

That's really cool that your fiance lives in THE Klamath County 😮 we actually did know that Westchester is in Klamath County and that Klamath County is a real place, though I did not know that there is a town called Winchester!

#ask #anon #mod win

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cheaprv · 11 months

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Klamath County, Oregon. Photo by Andrea P. Coan.

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valhikes · 7 months

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Klamath National Forest, California

Marble Mountain Wilderness

I had a lovely hike up to the camp for another week of trail work (well, 4 days planned for actually work) heading up Canyon Creek in the Marble Mountain Wilderness of Kamath National Forest.

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