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 ...

“I went through your draft application, and I can’t tell if a goddamn salmon even lives in the Klamath River,” she once told company executives. Then there was Troy Fletcher, executive ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, the Klamath River nourished Indigenous peoples with its abundant salmon runs. But in the early 20th century, four hydroelectric dams blocked the river, endangering fish ...

Last November, two months after the final dam fell, Jeff Mitchell heard that salmon were spotted in Spencer Creek along the upper Klamath River in Oregon. He drove to the creek, which fed into the ...

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 ...

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 Klamath River had once hosted one of the West Coast’s largest salmon runs, with thousands of adult Chinooks swimming upstream every autumn. But in 1911, a local power utility called the ...