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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 Basin suffered a near-death experience after being subjected to more than 100 years of mismanagement and injustices against tribal communities. ... the salmon runs were depleted ...
A chinook salmon was thrashing upstream, traveling into habitat that until recently had been blocked since the early 1900s by a series of dams near the Oregon and California state line.
[64] [65] Ishi Pishi Falls, a set of rapids on the Klamath River near the confluence with the Salmon River, has been a traditional fishing ground for thousands of years. Tribes of the upper basin were primarily hunter-gatherers, and did not depend on salmon as much as downstream tribes. [66]
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.
Wooley Creek is a large stream in Siskiyou County, California, a tributary of the Salmon River.Wooley Creek flows 22 miles (35 km) [1] from Man Eaten Lake [2] in the Marble Mountain Wilderness of the Klamath National Forest, in a generally southwest direction, to its confluence with the Salmon River about 4 miles (6.4 km) upstream of the Salmon's confluence with the Klamath River at Somes Bar. [3]
The last obstacle for the free-flowing Klamath River was removed last week, ... They measured their lives by spring and fall salmon runs. Combined with other nourishing foods like acorn, berries ...