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Agriculture doesn’t have to be on the “opposite side” from environmental concerns in the debate about water use, says Karl Wenner, a retired orthopedic surgeon who manages Lakeside Farms, a farm on Upper Klamath Lake.
Join Wenner at the downtown Klamath County Library on Wednesday, June 21st at 2 pm for a presentation on the farm’s various restoration projects – including the capture of agricultural runoff, providing habitat for birds, and raising C’waam and Koptu, the endangered sucker fish central to the conflict over water in the region.
Can’t make it in person? The talk will also be streamed live over Zoom – email folklamath@gmail.com for the link to listen in.
“There’s some hope in all this,” Wenner told the Herald and News in December 2021 in an article about the farm. “It’s been pretty bleak all the way around, whether you like ducks or you like potatoes, and certainly if you like suckers. This is an effort to change that.” The farm changed irrigation practices to return the area back as much as possible to the wetland it was created from, reducing the amount of nutrient-rich water runoff that algae blooms feast on.
The presentation will be followed by a brief business meeting of the Friends of the Klamath County Library.
The Friends need volunteers like you to help manage The Bookie Joint bookstore, proceeds of which support library programming. For more about how you can become a Friend of the Klamath County Library, visit klamathlibrary.org/friends.