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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.
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 Bureau must consider water needs for threatened coho salmon in the river, and two species of endangered sucker fish in Upper Klamath Lake. [7] In 2001, a court order withheld irrigation water from Klamath Project farmers, to comply with mandated river levels for the threatened Coho salmon and the endangered Lost River Sucker. [8]
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 river annually produced enormous salmon runs, one of the richest sub-basins in the Trinity watershed, and virgin old-growth forests covered most of the watershed. In the 19th century, many events the largest of which was the California Gold Rush spurred Europeans, Americans and others to flood the region in search of furs, and later gold.
The project's goals include reviving the river’s ecosystem and enabling chinook and coho salmon to swim upstream and spawn along 400 miles of the Klamath and its tributaries.