The Klamath Fish Hatchery near Chiloquin, Oregon, is back in business after a five-year rebuild that turned a devastating fire into a fresh start. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reopened the hatchery to visitors on June 1, marking the end of a long recovery from the 2020 Two Four Two Fire that destroyed the facility’s 100-year-old main building and killed approximately 50,000 triploid brown trout. Volunteer firefighters saved staff residences and outbuildings by using the hatchery’s own water pumps to fight the blaze. Reconstruction took far longer than expected. … The result is a new concrete, noncombustible building that is slightly larger than the original and includes expanded fish-rearing capacity.

Other Klamath Basin news:

• Jefferson Public Radio (Ore.): Klamath Wetlands Week highlights one of the West’s largest wetland ecosystems