Native youths train with Aspen-based nonprofit to be the first to kayak the Klamath River after dam removal
The largest dam-removal and river-restoration project in history was approved last month for the Klamath River along the California-Oregon border. U.S. regulators approved the plan to demolish four of the six hydroelectric dams on the river by 2024 in order to open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat and sacred lands. Environmentalists and local tribes who rely on the Klamath and its salmon have been working for years to have the dams removed — and a group of native youths are training with Aspen-based nonprofit Ríos to Rivers to be the first to kayak down the free-flowing river.
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