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A moment in history: Klamath River flows free after the last dams come down, leaving land to tribes and salmon Celebration marks achievement and salmon's return
Klamath River flows free after the last dams come down, leaving land to tribes and salmon Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY NETWORK Updated September 2, 2024 at 10:09 AM
For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon have free passage along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — as the largest ...
The Klamath River (Karuk: Ishkêesh, [9] Klamath: Koke, [10] Yurok: Hehlkeek 'We-Roy [11]) is a 257-mile (414 km) long river in southern Oregon and northern California. Beginning near Klamath Falls in the Oregon high desert , it flows west through the Cascade Range and Klamath Mountains before reaching the temperate rainforest of California's ...
Demonstrators calling for removal of dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California, U.S. (2006). Un-Dam the Klamath (#UnDamtheKlamath) is a social movement in the United States to remove the dams on the Klamath River primarily because they obstruct salmon, steelhead, and other species of fish from accessing the upper basin which provides hundreds of miles of spawning habitat.
The removal of dams on the Klamath River has enabled salmon to swim far upstream to spawn. Wildlife officials have found salmon upstream in Oregon.
Access to Boise Creek for salmon has been blocked by a bedrock falls 13.5 feet high near the creekmouth (see figure) so the Mid Klamath Watershed Council proposed, in February 2010, creation of an engineered logjam to divert flows into historic side channels which would re-connect the creek to the Klamath River mainstem and bypass the falls.
The removal of four dams over the past year has opened up fascinating stretches of river, wild rapids and views of salmon. River guides explore transformed ‘New Klamath’ after historic dam removal