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Creator:: Owens, Joshua M.
Abstract:: The Wood River Basin lies upstream of Upper Klamath Lake, the main reservoir of the USBR Klamath Irrigation Project that provides irrigation water to 210,000 acres of downstream land. Water allocation became a contentious issue in 2001 when drought led to curtailment of irrigation deliveries to the Klamath Irrigation Project...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Modeling of Hydrologic Responses to Irrigation Management in the Wood River Basin, Klamath County, OR

Creator:: Jaeger, William K. (William Kenneth) and Oregon State University. Extension Service
Abstract:: Since publication of the Oregon State University–University of California report on Klamath Basin water allocation,1 the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) and Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA) initiated a pilot project to compensate growers who agree to withhold irrigation from 12,000 acres of Project lands. This “Pilot Water Bank,” in place...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Institutional Issues with a Focus on the Upper Klamath Basin, SR 1037 (Oregon State University and the

Creator:: Oregon State University. Extension Service and Jaeger, William K. (William Kenneth)
Abstract:: In order to understand the economics of the 2001 irrigation curtailment in the Upper Klamath Basin, and the prospects for lower-cost solutions to future irrigation shortfalls, one must appreciate just how much the economic value of irrigation water varies from one piece of land to another throughout the Upper Basin....
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: , Brief #1 The Value of Irrigation Water Varies Enormously Across the Upper Klamath Basin W.K. Jaeger

Creator:: Oregon State University. Extension Service and Jaeger, William K. (William Kenneth)
Abstract:: The conflict over water allocation in the Upper Klamath Basin encompasses many important, complex, and difficult questions. One aspect of the situation, energy pricing, has come under increased scrutiny in connection with relicensing of the Klamath River hydropower operations, which is scheduled to take effect in 2006.
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: the Upper Klamath Basin, SR 1037 (Oregon State University and the University of California, 2002

Creator:: Chaffin, Brian C.
Abstract:: The concept of "adaptive governance" represents a spectrum of hybrid approaches to environmental governance employed to guide management of complex social-ecological systems under conditions of high uncertainty. While the concept of adaptive governance has benefited from over a decade of theoretical development, empirical examples of transitions towards adaptive governance are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . They included provisions for shared management of Klamath Basin resources among those with

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