How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

After more than a century of obstruction, the Klamath River is experiencing a rebirth. After the recent removal of four massive hydroelectric dams, the largest such project ever in the U.S., more ...

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

“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 ...

PHOENIX – The last of the four dams that nearly destroyed salmon populations on the Klamath River ... flow of the river and ...

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

After the removal of dams on the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border last year, biologists have spotted salmon spawning far upstream in waters that were previously inaccessible for ...

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 ...

However, habitat conditions are forecasted to improve for Sacramento River salmon, and the removal of the Klamath river dams is anticipated to result in increased salmon survival in the future." ...

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 ...