But rarely have we had salmon as fabulous as Klamath River Chinook (king) salmon, caught the night before in a river recently freed from four dams, before being cooked Yurok-style over an open fire.

It is a necessary but far from sufficient step toward restoring the serially ravaged Klamath River basin, once home to the nation’s third-largest salmon fishery, so thick with salmon before the ...

Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This ...

The Klamath was once known as the third-largest salmon-producing river on the West Coast. But after power company PacifiCorp built the dams to generate electricity between 1918 and 1962, the ...

Despite the closure of salmon fishing in California river and ocean waters in 2023 and 2024, the number of Fall Chinook Salmon returning to both the Sacramento and Klamath River Basins was well ...

Four dams were removed from the Klamath River in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. Additionally, in 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a “Salmon Strategy” involving a slew of ...

including the historic dam removal project that recently took place along the Klamath River. Spring-run Chinook salmon are vulnerable to “scorching” temperatures present in the Central Valley ...

Undammed,” an exhibit celebrating the historic removal of dams on the Klamath River, will be on view April 3 to May 17 at Cal ...

The removal of dams from the Klamath is a saga that local media have watched closely, as Indigenous tribes have fought alongside other advocates to restore the salmon runs that had all but vanished.

“Spring-run Chinook are truly king salmon, magnificent fish prized for their size and taste and impressive for their arduous migrations into upper river reaches,” said ... for populations in the Upper ...