Cattle graze in a heavily irrigated pasture near the Wood River, an upper tributary of the Klamath. The State is ordering irrigators along the Sprague, Wood, and Williamson rivers to shut down.
Water regulators are ordering dozens of ranchers in Oregon’s Upper Klamath River Basin to shut down their irrigation pumps. The water shutoffs jeopardize a cattle ranching industry while protecting the treaty rights of tribes and fish downstream.
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