UC Davis Panel Discussion on Impact of Salmon Losses on Karuk Tribe

On Salmon and Tribes: The Deterioration of the Salmon Fishery and Health of a Northern Californian Tribe in the Klamath River Watershed - June 2 at UCD

Please join the UC Davis John Muir Institute of the Environment, the Putah Cache Bioregion Project, and the Department of Native American Studies for a panel discussion and video documentary examining how the lives of Native American people are impacted by the loss of salmon due
to dams along the Klamath River.  This complex case of the Karuk Tribe is just coming under the national spotlight as today's most important case of tribal social and environmental justice (as covered by NPR's "All Things Considered" and The Washington Post).

On Salmon and Tribes:
The Deterioration of the Salmon Fishery and Health of a Northern Californian Tribe in the Klamath River Watershed

Thursday, June 2nd, 12:00-2:30 pm
3001 PES (Plant and Environmental Sciences Building)
University of California, Davis

Featuring:
Ron Reed, Cultural Biologist and Traditional Dipnet Fisherman, Karuk Tribe of California

Dr. Kari Norgaard, Environmental Sociologist, Center for Population Biology, UC Davis

Russ Kanz, Environmental Scientist, State Water Resources Control Board Division of Water Rights

Kelly Catlett, Hydropower Reform Policy Advocate, Friends of the River

Dr. Peter Moyle, Fish Biologist, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, and Associate

Director, Center for Integrated Watershed Science and Management, UC Davis.

Panel Moderator:
Dr. Edward Valandra, Sicangu Lakota Nation; Assistant Professor,
Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis

Video Documentary - "Salmon on the Backs of Buffalo"

Check out the event's website for more detailed information:
http://johnmuir.ucdavis.edu/activities/salmon-n-tribes.html


Press Releases and Media Reports on this topic:
April 1, 2005
American Fisheries' Society Report confirms Tribal Oral Histories:
Salmon
once thrived in Upper Klamath Basin
(Karuk Tribe of California Press Release, reprinted by Friends of the
River)
http://www.friendsoftheriver.org/PressRoom/2005-04-01_KarukTribe.html

March 17, 2005
California Tribe Fights Back
(All Things Considered at npr.org)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4539960

January 30, 2005
Salmon Declines Threaten Tribe's Health and Culture
(Karuk Tribe of California Press Release, reprinted by Friends of the
River)
http://www.friendsoftheriver.org/PressRoom/2005-01-31_KarukTribe.html

January 30, 2005
Tribe Fights Dams to Get Diet Back
(washingtonpost.com)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47525-2005Jan29.html