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Removal of Klamath River dams caps long fight by Native American ...


Removal of Klamath River dams caps long fight by Native American ...

This coming January will mark the final leg of the massive project to remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River in Northern California.

Largest dam removal ever, driven by Tribes, kicks off Klamath River ...

They had devastating effects on salmon populations and tribal communities, leading to a decades-long, tribe-led movement for their removal.

A River's Rebirth: Klamath Dam Removals Offer New Life for Salmon ...

After more than a century, the Klamath River that provides critical salmon habitat will soon flow freely again thanks to tribes that fought for decades to ...

What We are Learning from America's Largest Dam Removal Project

Removal of four outdated hydroelectric dams has begun the revival of the Klamath River and its once prodigious salmon runs.

The Other Side of the World's Largest Dam Removal | Hakai Magazine

Dam proponents also ignored Native American rights and interests. Their projects' reservoirs flooded homelands of the Shasta people, so utterly ...

Removing Dams from the Klamath River is a Step Toward Justice for ...

Native American communities in the Pacific Northwest have fought for decades to remove hydroelectric dams that harm salmon migration. The ...

Tribes celebrate the end of the largest dam removal project in US ...

Through protests, testimony and lawsuits, local tribes showcased the environmental devastation due to the four towering hydroelectric dams, ...

Klamath Dam Removal | Moments That Write History #10

... years after CalTrout joined the fight to restore the Klamath River, the biggest dam removal in US history is about to happen ... It takes a long time to remove ...

Indigenous advocacy leads to largest dam removal project in US ...

Four dams are being demolished along the Klamath River in northern California, as salmon populations plummet. Heavy-duty excavators tear down ...

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In Northern California, one of the world's largest dam removal projects is underway ... Removal of Klamath River dams caps long fight by Native American tribes.

The largest dam removal in history stirs hopes of restoring California ...

Native activists fought for years to build support for taking down dams on the Klamath River in Northern California. Now, they hope removing ...

Tearing down Klamath dams: The world's largest dam demolition

The original locals, the Shasta Indian Nation, also have mixed feelings about the dam removal. Though they support the river's restoration, they ...

Klamath Dam Removal: 'It's an Environmental Disaster'

The removal of dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was sold as necessary to save salmon – specifically, “to restore habitat ...

The Salmon Diaries: Life Before and After Klamath Dam Removal

Map of northern Californa and southern Oregon pinpointing dams being removed on the Klamath River. This map shows in red the locations of four ...

Klamath River dam removal hopes to undo decades of ecological ...

The hydropower dams, which altogether stand at 411 feet, also devastated the salmon population and the Indigenous tribes who had subsisted on ...

Last Dam in Klamath River Removal Project Comes Down - Planetizen

The project is hailed as a victory for local tribal nations such as the Yurok, who have been fighting for the dams' removal for decades.

Tribes celebrate end of Klamath Dam removal project, largest in US ...

But the structures halted the natural flow of the waterway that was once known as the third-largest salmon-producing river on the West Coast, ...

Five key lessons as world's biggest dam removal project will soon ...

Over the next century, U.S. companies built dams on the Klamath River that wiped out two species of salmon and brought the populations of the ...

Removal of Klamath River dams caps long fight by Native American ...

Removal of Klamath River dams caps long fight by Native American tribes ... In 1918, when the industrials seeking to harness Northern California's ...

The Lower Klamath River Will Soon Flow Freely Again - NRDC

Sparking hope for the West's rivers and beyond, a decades-long battle leads to the world's biggest dam removal project.