Balancing Water: Restoring the Klamath Basin

194 Pages·2000·6.13 MB·English

by  Tupper Ansel Blake

BALANCING WATER
Before restoration,
Marsh Island Ranch,
California.
After restoration,
Marsh Island Ranch,
California.
Great Basin Canada geese
over Mount Shasta,
California.
Fall migration,
White Lake,
California.
B A L A N C I N G
re stori ng the k lamath bas i n
WA T E R
tupper ansel blake
Photographs by
madeleine graham blake
and
william kittredge
Text by
With quotations by Aldo Leopold
u n i v e r s i t y o f c a l i f o r n i a p r e s s b e r k e l e y l o s a n g e l e s l o n d o n
University ofCalifornia Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University ofCalifornia Press, Ltd.
London, England
Photographs © 2000 Tupper Ansel Blake and
Madeleine Graham Blake
Text © 2000 William Kittredge
The quotations displayed on pages 4, 17, 31, 33, 38, 43,
55, 93, 99, 102, 120, 128, 132, 136, 157, 160, and 163 are
drawn from Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanacand other
writings.They are used by kind permission ofNina Leopold
Bradley and the Shack Foundation.
Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Blake, Tupper Ansel.
Balancing water :restoring the Klamath Basin /
photographs by Tupper Ansel Blake and Madeleine Graham
Blake ;text by William Kittredge.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-520-21314-9 (cl.:alk.paper).
1. Water use—Klamath River Watershed (Or.and Calif.)
2. Klamath River Watershed (Or.and Calif.) I. Title.
II. Blake, Madeleine Graham, 1948– . III. Kittredge,
William.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
1
Otey Island 1 Everything Is Part of Everything 6
2
Sycan Marsh 9 Yamsi 16
3
The Marsh 23 The State of Klamath 25
4
Time Immemorial 35
5
Earthworks 51
The Klamath Basin: The Land, the Wildlife 58
6
Feathers 73
7
The Rewards of Tenacity 81
8
Inviolable Rights 89
9
Gridlock 97 Home Rule 100
The Klamath Basin: The People 106
10
Chemicals 119
11
Wetlands 135
12
Neighborhoods 153 Managing the Commons 156
Adjudicating the Future 161 Continuities 163
Index 169