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Over the following 20 years, the "Undam the Klamath" campaign was formed to remove the dams and restore the salmon. The tribes, environmentalists, and their allies angrily filled legislative ...
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.
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 ...
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
The Klamath Basin is on the Pacific Flyway and the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges Complex is visited by migratory game birds every year. The project can be distinguished the Klamath River Hydroelectric Project, which is a set of hydro dams on the mainstem of the Klamath operated by for-profit energy company PacifiCorp.
The recently completed removal of dams on the Klamath River is raising hopes of rebuilding the population of threatened spring-run Chinook salmon.
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.
Klamath Chairman William Ray said his tribe had fished the last salmon out of the river in the early 20th century after the first of the dams, Copco I, stopped fish from coming upstream to spawn.