Salmon Spread Throughout the Basin, Bringing Hope with Them
Good news about the Klamath River reaches international outlets this week as Salmon continue their journey to the upper reaches of the Klamath Basin. The success we are seeing with the Klamath post-dam removal is inspiring hope around the world - if the people of the Klamath can succeed in healing their river and communities, others can too.
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One year after a historic dam removal, teens inspire river restoration worldwide: ‘It turns out you can win’ | California | The Guardian
The Klamath River began rebounding almost immediately. Now, Indigenous youth are leading the next chapter of the recovery, inspiring tribes from Brazil to China
Klamath River temperatures changed dramatically after dam removal. That’s helping salmon swim farther upstream - OPB
The physical barriers of four dams are gone. Now, improved water quality in the river could also be game changer for fish in the Klamath Basin.
A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back - The New York Times
The fish had been missing from the headwaters of the Klamath River for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of dams, they’ve returned.
Dam deconstruction is gathering pace, but it’s no simple process
Increasing numbers of ageing, uneconomical or potentially dangerous dams are being demolished around the world. Removing dams can improve the health of rivers and restore ecosystems, but as the FT’s Stephen Morris reports, it can also be costly, complicated and controversial, especially when water supplies are affected.
Salmon Are Recolonizing Klamath River After Dam Removals
One year after four dams were removed on the Klamath River spanning the Oregon-California border, fall Chinook salmon have made it into previously inaccessible spawning grounds. Earlier this month, biologists confirmed that multiple Chinook have made it past the old dam sites and into tributaries of Upper Klamath Lake
Project of the Year, Best Water/Environment: Klamath River Renewal Project | Engineering News-Record
The Klamath River Renewal project involved the removal of several dams in Northern California (and southern Oregon) over the span of just 16 months. In October 2024, the project was completed on budget and ahead of schedule, returning 35 river miles to natural habitat for the first time in over a century. Kiewit Infrastructure West Co., working for project owner Klamath River Renewal Corp. (KRRC), handled the demolition of 100,000 cu yd of concrete, 1.3 million cu yd of earth and 2,000 tons of steel in the removal of four dams
Salmon seen for first time in century after California dam removal
A year after the historic removal of four dams along the Klamath River in Northern California and Southern Oregon, Chinook salmon have cleared the waterway’s last remaining dams and returned to tributaries in the Upper Klamath Basin for the first time in over a century.
Celebration Marks Completion of Tributary Restoration at Key Klamath River Sites | Lost Coast Outpost | Humboldt County News
The end of construction activity on four priority tributaries to the Klamath River was marked with a “restoration celebration” hosted by Resource Environmental Solutions (RES) and attended last week by tribal leaders, contractors and others.
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