Watershed Assessments
The Klamath Watershed Partnership has been awarded $400,000 in grant funding to coordinate watershed assessments and action plans in the Upper Klamath Basin. The funding was awarded by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, in response to a joint proposal submitted by the Partnership and the Hatfield Upper Basin Working Group.
The Hatfield Group was formed in the early 1990's, and has thirty-three members representing the broadest possible range of interests, including representatives from agriculture, timber, recreation, tribal, governmental and environmental and others. The Group has the three-part mission of ecosystem restoration, drought-proofing, and sustainable economic development.
Klamath Watershed Partnership and the Hatfield Group each have indispensable resources and expertise to bring to the Assessment Project, and we are all extremely enthusiastic about having the chance to show what the people of the Klamath Basin are capable of accomplishing, when they put their minds to it.
For details on this work, go to the Watershed Assessment pages. Contact the Partnership office for up-to-date information on the Klamath Community-Based Watershed Assessment Project, or on how you can get involved with your local Watershed Working Group.
Watershed Assessment Strategy
The Assessment Strategy describes the boundaries of the Watershed Assessment Units within the Upper Klamath Basin and how they were developed. The Strategy also provides a chronology and schedule for conducting all the sub-basin Watershed Assessments throughout the Upper Klamath Basin. Here is the Draft Assessment Strategy:
- Upper Klamath Basin Wasershed Assessment Strategy (PDF - 256 kb)
- Figure 1: Watershed Assessment Units (PDF - 1 mg)
- Figure 2: Watersheds, Sub-basins and Land Ownership (PDF - 1.3 mgs)
- Figure 3: Klamath Project Irrigation and Drainage District Boundaries with Watershed Working Group Boundaries (PDF - 496 kb)
- Figure 4: Land Use and Land Cover (PDF - 828 kb)
- Figure 5: Ecoregions (PDF - 956 kb)