Members of the Klamath Tribes plan to protest outside a congressional field hearing regarding the Endangered Species Act because their tribal chairman was not included on a list of witnesses," according to the Associated Press, 7/12. The House Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the Endangered Species Act in Klamath Falls, Oregon this Saturday.

"The committee will be considering laws and regulations that profoundly affect tribal resources. We must speak on behalf of the tribal fisheries that have been decimated by reckless resource management in violation of our federal treaty rights, " said Allen Foreman, chairman of the Klamath Tribes. Tribes in the Klamath River basin "have fishing rights for endangered Lost River and shortnose sucker fish and threatened coho salmon.


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