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Salmon are ‘coming home’ to spawn in Klamath River after dams are removed

Local tribes have dreamed of seeing Salmon spawning in local waters for decades as they fought to bring down four hydroelectric dams blocking passage for struggling salmon along more than 400 miles (644km) of the Klamath River and its tributaries along the Oregon-California border.

Now, less than a month after those dams came down in the largest dam removal project in US history, salmon are once more returning to spawn in cool creeks that have been cut off to them for generations.

Video shot by the Yurok Tribe show that hundreds of salmon have made it to tributaries between the former Iron Gate and Copco dams, a hopeful sign for the newly freed waterway.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/klamath-river-dam-removal-salmon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other