Drought declaration for Klamath County

Klamath County, Ore. – You heard it first from NBC5 in January that Klamath County Commissioners were pursuing a drought declaration.
That declaration was signed Tuesday.
“It was the 28% snow water equivalent we have right now in snowpack in the mountains,” explained Klamath County Commissioner Donnie Boyd.
Boyd said Klamath County Commissioners were planning to make the declaration earlier this month.
The Endangered Species Act could also tighten water supplies for project farmers.
Tribes are calling for higher lake levels for endangered sucker fish above the Klamath Project, and increased river flows for endangered salmon below the project.
KOTI-TV NBC2 reporter Lyle Ahrens moved from Nebraska to Klamath Falls in the late 1970’s.
He instantly fell in love with the mountains, the trees and the rivers, and never once regretted the move.Lyle’s job history is quite colorful.
He’s managed a pizza parlor; he’s been a bartender, and a “kiwifruit grader” at an organic orchard in New Zealand.
A Klamath Falls radio station hired Lyle in the mid 90’s as a news writer and commercial producer.

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