THERE'S A NEW POST AT KLAMBLOG!

[Felice Pace]

The new post is titled:

Siskiyou County is a special place


This post provides details of how a dominant faction of the Siskiyou
County Board of Supervisors is working to secure "special treatment"
for Shasta and Scott Valley agriculture in the federal recovery plan
for Southern Oregon-Northern California Coho as well as their plans to
control national forest decisions on roads and logging.

The post discusses the supervisors' strategy, the federal legislation
they are pursuing with Senator Diane Feinstein and Congressman Wally
Herger and the historical context for the hostility of these
supervisors toward Indigenous rights and the two federal tribes based
in the county.

Here's an excerpt:

...Siskiyou County seems stuck in a sordid past which is
officially denied but which haunts county politics and social
relations. Hostility toward the two tribes based in the county – the
Karuk Tribe and the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation – and toward
Indigenous natives generally is never far from the surface in this
rural county and sometimes finds open expression....

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