Within minutes of reaching the banks of the Klamath River, we saw them — four or five large Chinook salmon, their ...

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At a virtual press conference on Thursday, Oct. 9, Klamath River scientists announced that a year after the last of the dams were removed, river health has begun to bounce back. With salmon swimming ...

A salmon passed through the fish ladder of a key dam on the upper Klamath River on Sept. 24, in what wildlife officials hope is a sign of the iconic fish repopulating ever-greater stretches of the ...

After decades of conflict, farmers and tribes say they’re working in concert to restore salmon habitat in the Klamath Basin. But two dams remain Klamath tribal member and fish tech Charlie Wright ...

One year after the last of four hydroelectric dams was removed from the Klamath River in northern California, tribes and environmentalists pronounced the work a success. Salmon are finding their way ...

The fish had been missing from the headwaters of the Klamath River for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of a final dam, they’ve returned. By Rebecca Dzombak After being absent for ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Facing the continued collapse of Chinook salmon, officials today shut down California’s commercial salmon fishing ...

Native young people from seven tribes paddled 310 miles down the Klamath River in northern California to celebrate the restoration of the waterway. Tribes in the region had fought for years to remove ...

This month marks the one-year anniversary of dam removal along the lower Klamath River, the culmination of what has been described as “the world’s biggest dam removal project.” During a virtual news ...