Salmon Return to Klamath

After a decades-long campaign led by the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath tribes, along with a wide range of environmental NGOs and fishing advocacy groups, four dams blocking the Klamath River have been removed opening over 2,200 miles of river.

The project, which cost roughly $500 million dollars, is the largest dam removal project of its kind and had the immediate impact of allowing salmon to return and spawn in historic breeding grounds where they had not had access in decades and, in one case, in since 1918.