First Person: How Drought Along The Klamath River Impacts Migratory Birds

On Point | Podcast - A podcast by WBUR

The diversion of water from refuges in the Klamath River basin, as well as climate change, is altering migratory patterns of bird species in the Pacific Flyway, from Alaska to Patagonia. John Alexander is executive director of the Klamath Bird Observatory. He joins us in this 'First Person' diary to explain how 'the arteries of the West, our wetland ecosystems, are failing.'