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Demonstrators calling for removal of dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California, USA. As resolution of several long-range issues centered on water rights in the Klamath Basin, the multi-party Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement was signed in early 2008.
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.
A new agreement, the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement (KHSA) was signed on April 6, 2016 which planned to remove four hydroelectric dams (the Copco 1, Copco 2, J.C. Boyle, and Iron Gate) by 2020. [8] In November 2022, federal approval was granted for the dam removals, with deconstruction efforts commencing in 2023. [9]
The world's largest dam removal project to date was complete, and about 500 people came to a meadow about 10 miles south of the Klamath last month to celebrate and to look forward to the next ...
The Klamath River dams removal project was a significant win for tribal nations on the Oregon-California border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.
The removal of the four dams, which were built without tribes’ consent between 1912 and the 1960s, has cleared the way for California to return more than 2,800 acres of ancestral land to the ...
Ancestral lands will be returned to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of a massive Klamath River dam removal ... help other tribes either reclaim land or enter into co-management agreements. The ...
Workers have begun dismantling the largest dam on the Klamath River. Indigenous activists are celebrating a milestone in restoring a free-flowing river.