About Us

snow capped mountain view from Upper Klamath Marsh

What is UKBAC?

The Upper Klamath Basin Ag Collaborative (UKBAC) was formed to support local family farms and ranches on an individual level and to identify and implement opportunities for large-scale solutions to shared challenges that threaten local agricultural resilience.

Ranch Resiliency + Conservation

The Upper Klamath Basin Ag Collaborative was formed to identify regional solutions and give landowners and producers a collective voice on issues of utmost importance to the resiliency of their properties. We believe there is a nexus between conservation and ranch resiliency. For example, when pastures and grasslands are fallowed due to lack of water, topsoil erodes and sediment is transported into surface water, which is devastating to the entire ecosystem. We seek solutions to mitigate these effects, including investing in restoration activities that support agricultural production when less water is available.

2001 view of Upper Klamath Basin ranch tributary pre-restoration

2001: tributary view pre-restoration

2007 view of Upper Klamath Basin ranch tributary post-restoration

2007: tributary view post-restoration

Restoration matters to many Upper Klamath Basin ranch families, as illustrated in the above photos showing tributary restoration over a six-year period.

Wood River Valley ranch in the Klamath Basin

Advancing Problem Solving Through Collaboration

We live in a drought-prone environment and we must develop creative solutions for all people in the Upper Klamath Basin to survive and prosper. As a first step, UKBAC is leading a coalition of partners to implement small-scale projects in partnership with willing landowners and developing a potential large-scale restoration effort to significantly improve water quality and stabilize groundwater reserves in the Sprague River Valley. We are also developing a toolkit that can help quantify the resources landowners need to offset potential changes to agricultural production to accommodate restoration projects.

Creating Opportunities to Address Producer Challenges

UKBAC is seeking private funding and advocating for new sources of public funding to support needed restoration efforts that will enable long-term agricultural production in the Upper Klamath Basin. This work includes technical support and funding for project design, science resources, modeling resources, scaling resources, grant writing, engineering, and public education about the benefits of restoration for resilient agriculture.