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River of Renewal

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A land of mountains, forests, wetlands, lakes, and rivers, the Klamath Basin spans the Oregon-California state line. Farms and ranches, logging towns, and back-to-the-land communities are scattered over this 10-million-acre bioregion. There are Indian reservations on the headwaters, on the estuary, and around the major tributary of the Klamath River. On this place that has witnessed, ever for the reason that Gold Rush, a succession of wars and resource conflicts, myths of the West loom large, amplifying differences among its inhabitants.

At the core of the latest controversy is overallocation of the waters of the Klamath Basin. This dispute has pitted farmers and ranchers against the ones whose cultures and livelihoods depend upon fishing and others who would forestall the extinction of wild salmon. Yet it has also revealed the unity of the Klamath Basin, the interdependence of economic recovery with ecological restoration, and the urgency for the entire communities inside the Basin to search out common ground.

To listen to an interview with Stephen Most entitled “Fished Out: Draining the Seas of Their Bounty,” please consult with: http://www.aworldofpossibilities.com/

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