Thomas Dunklin, a local fisheries geo-videologist, recently completed a documentary film, commissioned by the Yurok Tribe, about the Klamath River Restoration Agreement. It includes interviews with Yurok Tribal Chairwoman Maria Tripp, tribal member Troy Fletcher, who has been active in the settlement talks, and senior fisheries biologist for the tribe Mike Belchik.
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This article appears in Backstage Pass.
Its too bad the settlement deal doesn’t provide any certainty of water for salmon. Holding hands and making peace sounds great, but as the 2002 fish kill demonstrated, without protected minimum river flows you can’t restore salmon.