After 80 years, endangered Chinook salmon eggs return to McCloud River and Winnemem Wintu tribe
In a life flight that could change the course of one tribe’s history, a helicopter delivered 20,000 endangered salmon eggs to a remote area in Shasta County, in an effort to save the winter-run Chinook species struggling to survive in California’s warming river waters. … For Sisk and members of her tribe, it was a monumental moment, personally helping a new generation of winter-run Chinook towards the McCloud River. The eggs will be among the first salmon to reach these waters since Shasta Dam was built more than 80 years ago.
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