Dam removal: What’s at stake in freeing the Klamath River
For millennia, Native Americans watched [salmon] enter the Klamath River. The tribes celebrated them as a gift from the gods, but the fish numbers dwindled…. Huge dams … blocked the fish from their upstream spawning grounds and slowed the Klamath in torpid reservoirs. Now humanity is set to surrender much of the river back to nature. Four large dams on the Klamath River are due to be torn down in what is called the largest dam removal project in American history.