Our new Biological Assessment is out - Klamath Basin Crisis

Klamath Project Operations Biological Assessment
Contents
CONTENTS
Acronyms and Abbreviations .................................................................................. i
Contents ................................................................................................................... i
Appendices........................................................................................................... i
Figures.................................................................................................................. i
Tables................................................................................................................... i
Executive Summary................................................................................................ 1
Part 1 Introduction, Action Area, and Proposed Action.................................... 1
Introduction......................................................................................................... 1
Klamath Project Description............................................................................... 1
Overview of Proposed Action............................................................................. 1
Project Area .................................................................................................... 1
Action Area..................................................................................................... 1
Proposed Action.............................................................................................. 1
Detailed Proposed Action ................................................................................... 1
Background..................................................................................................... 1
Elimination of Specific Water Year Types..................................................... 1
Water Supply Predictions ............................................................................... 1
Discontinuation of Certain Elements of the Former Pilot Water Bank .......... 1
Efforts to Increase Project Storage ................................................................. 1
Element One.................................................................................................... 1
Element Two................................................................................................... 1
Element Three................................................................................................. 1
Element Four................................................................................................... 1
Part 2 Endangered Suckers................................................................................ 1
Sucker Description, Life History, Habitat, Distribution, and Abundance.......... 1
Description...................................................................................................... 1
Life History..................................................................................................... 1
Larvae ............................................................................................................. 1
Sucker Distribution and Habitat...................................................................... 1
Current Population and Status ........................................................................ 1
Environmental Baseline for Suckers................................................................... 1
Factors at the Time of Listing......................................................................... 1
Management Actions Taken in Effort to Improve Species Condition and/or
Habitat............................................................................................................. 1
Other Impacts.................................................................................................. 1
Effects of the Proposed Action on Endangered Suckers .................................... 1
Upper Klamath Lake Habitat.......................................................................... 1
Clear Lake and Gerber Reservoirs Habitat ..................................................... 1
Tule Lake Habitat ........................................................................................... 1
Review of Proposed Action ................................................................................ 1
Upper Klamath Lake....................................................................................... 1
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