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  • First sighting of salmon in 100 years marks key milestone for California dam removal

    First sighting of salmon in 100 years marks key milestone for California dam removal

    For the first time in more than a century, a salmon was observed swimming through Klamath River waters formerly blocked by Iron Gate Dam. Iron Gate and three other dams were demolished in a massive dam-removal project that recently wrapped up. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle In an early victory for the nation’s largest dam-removal project, the first…

  • Migration Matters: Breaking Down Barriers to Migration

    Migration Matters: Breaking Down Barriers to Migration

    Over the past century, humans have constructed major transportation infrastructure like highways, bridges, railroads, and more to streamline travel and the movement of goods. However, much of this development has made it difficult for animals to follow their traditional migration routes. Highways and railroad lines divide habitat, making animal crossings perilous, and bridges constructed over…

  • A Geography of Hope

    A Geography of Hope

    The Copco 2 dam, built in 1925, was the smallest of the four Klamath dams slated for removal. Photo by Shane Anderson. Following the removal of four dams on the Klamath River, the work of restoring the watershed is now underway. The epic task of rewilding a river and restoring its watershed is underway in…

  • A Republican’s quixotic quest against dam removal

    A Republican’s quixotic quest against dam removal

    Photo: Demolition of the Klamath River’s Copco No. 2 dam began last year. | Shane Anderson/Swiftwater Films/Klamath River Renewal LET IT FLOW: Water is flowing unimpeded down the Klamath River to the Pacific Ocean for the first time in more than a century — and Rep. Doug LaMalfa is depressed. “It’s our worst defeat since I’ve been a…

  • Tribes guard the Klamath River’s fish, water and lands as restoration begins at last

    Tribes guard the Klamath River’s fish, water and lands as restoration begins at last

    Photo: Doreen Ashley (left) and Gloria Mattz (right), fish technicians at the Yurok Fisheries Program, do all they can to help the fish of the Klamath River. Joel Angel Juarez/The Republic Queen Gensaw skylarked around and between her parents, Oscar and Georgianna, at the Yurok Tribe’s boat ramp at Requa, or Rek-woi, the “mouth of…