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<br />-16- <br /> <br />spawning <br /> <br />grounds for a non-native species of fisn. :n ~nited <br /> <br /> <br />Adair 23/ c~e ~~nth Circuit escablished an Indian ~ater <br /> <br />States v. <br />right for hunting and fishing purposes on the terminated Klamath <br /> <br />Indian Reservation. The scope of the right will be based <br />on the Tribe's current hunting and fishing activities. Both <br />the Colville reservation and the former Klamath reservation <br /> <br />are located in the Northwest where Indian assertions of <br /> <br />water right claims for fishery purposes are significant, <br /> <br />In In Re: The General Adjudication of all Rights to Use <br />of Water in the Big Horn System and all Other Sources 24/ the <br />Wyoming district court generally accepted the Special Master's <br />findings as to the scope and extent of practicably irrigable <br />acreage on the Wind River reservation and decreed to the Indians' <br /> <br />accompanying water rights. However, the Master recommended <br />extensive instream flow rights which were rejected by the <br /> <br />district court on the basis that the reservation was establish- <br />. <br /> <br />ed as an agricultural reservation, not a hunting and fishing <br /> <br />reservation. Using the same reasoning, the court also rejected <br /> <br />a recommended award for mineral development and municipal and <br /> <br />industrial uses, <br /> <br />IV. Potential Quantity of Indian Water Rights <br /> <br />In spite of all the litigation (and legislation and <br /> <br /> <br />negotiation) aimed at quantifying Indian water rights, such <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />