After decades of conflict, farmers and tribes say they’re working in concert to restore salmon habitat in the Klamath Basin.

A fall chinook salmon swims through a tributary of the Klamath River in Oregon in October 2024 ... and most of their offspring die every year because of poor water quality and degraded habitat.

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

And most of their offspring die every year because of poor water ... were listed as endangered species in 1988. Coho salmon in the Klamath River were listed as threatened in 1997.

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

Salmon, a keystone species vital to the Klamath River ecosystem ... role in maintaining ecological balance — when they die, they provide nutrients that feed vegetation and wildlife ...

Chinook salmon die-offs on the state’s rivers have happened routinely ... Yurok Tribe Chairman Joseph James said warm water and algae blooms on the Klamath River are already killing salmon in the ...

where Cordalis had watched fish die in 2002 along the warm, weak waters of the lower river. From there, the Klamath wound to the vastness of the Pacific, where the salmon were waiting to come home.

The OPB documentary looks at life in the aftermath of the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, which allowed the ...

Completion of the world’s largest dam removal project — which demolished four Klamath River ... the extent of potential river habitat that has been reopened to salmon (420 miles⁠⁠) are ...