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Caves get national historic designation

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By LACEY JARRELLH&N Staff Reporter

Weather conditions are expected to remain dry as the irrigation sea-son comes to a close Oct. 15.

According to Ryan Sandler, a meteorologist for the Medford National Weather Service, low tem-peratures are forecast to be in the mid-40s, with highs near 80, until mid-week. Both are about 10 degrees above normal, he said.

Sandler said the Basin is still characterized by extreme drought. He said since Oct. 1, 2011, the pre-cipitation deficit has steadily grown. In the last three years, the Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport has received 25.26 inches of rain and snow. The three year average is 44.89 inches, making the received amount 56 percent of normal.

“That’s quite a deficit,” he said. “It’s definitely a long-term drought.”

During the two-day storm that hit the Basin in September, pre-cipitation measurements at the air-port measured .93 inches — nearly three-quarters of that fell in one day, Sept. 25. The storm doubled the month’s normal rainfall of .42 inches.

According to Sandler, the forecast for October, November and Decem-ber is warmer and drier than nor-mal. He pointed out that those are also typically the wettest months and that less precipitation means less snowpack.

Klamath Irrigation District Man-ager Mark Stuntebeck said KID will shut down its irrigation system the morning of Oct. 15. Deliveries will still be made on Oct. 14 for those that request it, he said.

Irrigators start and finish season with dry conditions

drought forecast to continue

See WATER, page A4

By TRISTAN HIEGLERH&N Staff Reporter

BLY MOUNTAIN — A fleet of heavy equipment and machinery is tearing apart a section of Bly Moun-

tain in the hopes of putting Highway 140 West back together in better shape.

Work, including logging and exca-vating operations, is well underway on the Oregon Department of Trans-

portation’s (ODOT) plan to smooth out the highway’s sharp curves and improve drivability on a 9-mile sec-tion of the road.

Cutting the curves

Bly Mountain project to straighten road will cost $22M

H&N photos by Tristan Hiegler

This dirt road shows, in a very general sense, where Highway 140 will be rerouted to straighten out many twists and turns currently at Bly Mountain. The current roadway is to the left. The valley that has been excavated will be filled with compacted layers of dirt and rock before a section is paved to serve as the new, straighter route.

The Mallard, a water-fowl processing facility in Tulelake that was slated to close after 62 years of operation, will remain open under new management.

A story in Friday’s Her-ald and News indicated the processing portion of the shop would cease opera-tions.

Justin Matthews, grand-

son of Trudy Eastman who ran the Tulelake business for the past 46 years, said he has signed a lease to run it this season. Eastman is stepping down due to

health reasons.“Everything will stay the

way it is,” Matthews said of the business at 349 Modoc Ave.

Waterfowl processing facility to remain open

MALLARD, page A4

See PROJECT, page A3

By SAMANTHA TIPLERH&N Staff Reporter

The 4-H program is big in Klamath County. About 450

young people are in 4-H and about 150 adult leaders par-ticipate.

But it could all stop if local funding isn’t secured to keep

the Klamath Basin Research and Extension Center, which runs the 4-H program, going.

A local group, called KBREC Success, is gathering signatures to put a taxing dis-trict on the May 2015 ballot. They have about a month to gather 5,800 signatures.

KBREC Success member Traci Reed, a 4-H leader herself, has been canvassing school sports games and com-munity events to drum up sig-natures, highlighting the 4-H program.

“It helps put 4-H on the ballot to be saved,” she tells

people. “Otherwise the kids and the animals — we are done after this year.

“I usually just get it start-ed,” she said when people respond with, “ ‘They’re cut-ting 4-H?’ and they grab the thing from me and sign it.”

Dirt and rock are being taken by heavy machinery from sec-tions of Highway 140 at Bly Moun-tain so those areas can be leveled out.

4-H program facing cutsLocals gathering signatures to get KBREC on May 2015 ballot

See KBREC, page A3

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