After last year’s kill of 35,000 chinook and coho salmon from the Klamath River, California’s Yurok people are worried about a repeated massacre due to diversions of the river’s flow by farmers and federal agencies. Tribal member Barry McCovey notes, “Spring diversions strand and kill juvenile fish, and late summer diversions heat the main river to a degree salmon and steelhead find intolerable.” Negotiations over water control between the tribe and the Bureau of Reclamation are taking place.
