‘Answer to our ancestors’ prayers’: These teens paddled all 310 miles of the undammed Klamath River
… Weeks into their journey, the paddlers had passed through the lower river banks where, in 2002, tribes and environmentalists witnessed an ecological and cultural catastrophe known as the Klamath River Fish Kill. Hundreds of thousands of dead adult salmon and steelhead trout washed ashore, sparking a movement for dam removal and restoration of the river. The movement would lead to a decadeslong fight and eventually a $200 million settlement with the dam’s owners, PacifiCorp, which acknowledged the dams were too costly to maintain and didn’t contribute to water supplies or help with flood control.
Other Klamath River news:
- Fishing the North Coast With Kenny Priest: Blog: Big push of salmon and steelhead follows Klamath flow increase
