By JEFF BARNARD
Associated Press

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- The first year under a landmark agreement to share water between fish and farms in the Klamath Basin is shaping up as a tough one.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski called together the heads of state agencies in Salem Tuesday to see what they could offer farmers if federal irrigation water is cut back to leave water in the Klamath River for salmon.

A drought forced cutbacks on the Klamath Reclamation Project in 2001, and this year's snowpack is just 69 percent of normal.

The governor's natural resources adviser, Mike Carrier, says one big difference over 2001 is that farmers, salmon fishermen and others have forged good relationships as they developed the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement, signed last month in Salem.

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