Welcome to the 2025 Lower Klamath Basin Renaissance Tour!
Thank you for joining us on March 13th for the 2nd Annual Lower Klamath Renaissance Tour!
In recent years, the Klamath Basin has been reeling from years of conflict over water allocations. Tule Lake and Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuges were dry, birds migrating the Pacific Flyway bypassed the Lower Klamath, the Winter Wings Festival was cancelled, and family farmers and ranchers have struggled.
As a result, last year a coalition of Klamath Drainage District farmers, government agency staffers, advocates for the Pacific Flyway and LKNWR, South Suburban Sanitary District, Tribes, and concerned community members came together to share exciting new directions for the Lower Klamath area on our first annual Renaissance Tour. Our guests learned how wildlife, farmers, endangered fish, and Tribal communities could benefit in ways once thought unattainable.
We invite you to continue the conversation with us as we discuss how cooperation brought water to LKNWR, and how restoration projects taking place in the Lower Klamath and endangered fish species will play a role in how the region moves forward to a brighter future.
If you would like to join us but haven’t received an invitation, please email us. Please note seating is limited and we may not be able to fulfill your request.
Lower Klamath Renaissance Tour Itinerary & Route
Planned stops for the morning and afternoon of the Lower Klamath Basin Renaissance Tour to include:
- 8:00 am – Depart Running Y via Pelican Charters. Travel down Hwy 97 to Midland Rest Stop to meet up with single car tourists.
- 8:25 am – Depart – South on 97 to Pumping Plant F/FF.
- 9:00 am – Depart – South on 97 to Stateline Road, East on Stateline for approximately 5 miles to the Ady Canal Crossing.
- 9:40 am – Depart – East on Stateline Road to Straits Drain. South on Straights Drain Road onto the refuge to the Refuge’s Pumping Plant (Stop along the way for bird watching if possible).
- 10:30 am – Depart – East on the refuge to Spring & Honker Club Vantage point on Road (Stop along the way for bird watching if possible).
- 11:30 pm – Depart – North off refuge to Fugate Road to West on Lower Klamath Lake Road to Liskey Farms for Lunch.
- 1:15 pm – Depart for Klamath National Fish Hatchery.
- 2:15 pm – Depart for a slow tour across KDD for select bird watching (Private or Area K, TBD).
- 3:15 pm – Stop Midland Rest Stop for guests to retrieve cars.
- 3:30 pm – Return to Running Y.
- 5:30 pm – Doors open for Lower Klamath Renaissance Tour reception in Juniper Hall at the Running Y Resort with heavy hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.
- 6:00 pm – Presentations about restoration efforts across the Klamath Basin.
- 7:00 pm – Reception ends.
Full Route & Itinerary to be released soon.
(Please note times and locations are subject to change.)
For guests who requested lodging information, we will have information about rooms at the Running Y Lodge shortly.
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