We get how this works! It’s easy: Just spray summa that magical “Klamath algae” into your maw and nobody will want to ask you out to dinner anymore, or even welcome you at the home table. Presto! Your diet begins. (Alternatively, and just as good a method: If you get the wrong Klamath algae, the […]
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Whale, CSI
It probably will be at least two months before marine mammal specialists get enough lab results to make an educated guess about what killed the whale that circled for so many weeks in the Klamath River. One set of tests will look for toxins produced by freshwater algae. Another batch will assess blubber for contaminants […]
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Mama Whale Passes
Sad news — especially for those who seized the opportunity to be mesmerized by cetacean sublimeness in the past couple of months. The mama gray whale who had been living in the Klamath River since June 24 — and who’d been alone since her calf swam back out to sea July 22 — has died. […]
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Whale and Her Calf in the Klamath
The Inland Whale from Thomas B. Dunklin on Vimeo. A Gray Whale and her calf, in the lower Klamath River, roughtly 3 miles upstream of the mouth of the river. They have been in the river for over a week, and may stay much longer. In 1989, a mother and calf came in and spent […]
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Illegal Diversions
A California Department of Fish and Game program permitting ranchers to divert water from two major tributaries to the Klamath River has been deemed illegal by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith, reports Klamath Riverkeeper in a news release this afternoon. For years, diversions from the Scott and Shasta rivers were unregulated and, says […]