About Us
What is UKBAC?
Upper Klamath Basin Ag Collaborative
Most reaches of the Klamath Lake and River have organizations that represent the landowners, producers, tribes, and conservation interests. Upper Klamath Basin (UKB) agricultural interests have been relatively unorganized and/or individualized. We lack representation on key water management issues. This puts the UKB in an extremely disadvantaged situation. Both the state and the federal government want to help us but cannot work with every landowner individually on large-scale solutions. The Upper Klamath Basin Ag Collaborative (UKBAC) was formed to fill this need. Members of our Executive Committee have been attempting to negotiate with several entities over many years to find ways of ensuring that the agricultural community can survive and thrive in the developing reality we find ourselves in today.
Ranch Resiliency + Conservation
UKBAC Membership Enables a Collective Voice
The Upper Klamath Basin Ag Collaborative was formed to 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. When pastures and grasslands are fallowed due to lack of water, erosion of topsoil occurs and sediment is transported into the surface flows of water which is devastating to the entire ecosystem. We seek solutions to mitigate these effects.
Climate Change
Advancing Problem Solving Through Collaboration
We realize that we are in a climate change / drought environment and we must develop creative solutions for all people in the Upper Klamath Basin to survive and prosper.
We will be available to support solutions which other parties develop and will draft support letters, and even partner with those developers, if our support proves to be beneficial. We also will self-develop beneficial projects as we expect to be listening to most of the landowners and producers in the Upper Klamath Basin. These are the people who are closest to their land and its resources, and are proving to have many beneficial ideas but lack the resources to advance their projects.
Infrastructure
Providing Opportunities and Advancement
We will provide the infrastructure to qualify the most beneficial projects for funding, whether it be public or private funds. The infrastructure will include introductions to parties who will be important to the project’s success, initial project design aid, science resources, modeling resources, scaling recourses, grant writing, engineering, publicity, and internet positioning.