TULELAKE, Calif. (AP) — Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge lies along the Oregon-California border on the dry east side of the Cascade Range.
Once known as the Everglades of the West, it has been hard-pressed for water in recent years, standing in line behind endangered fish and farms.
Over the winter, there was only enough water to fill about half the refuge’s 31,000 acres of marshes, and an outbreak of avian cholera has killed more than 10,000 geese, ducks and other waterfowl.
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