A monumental moment is taking place at world’s largest dam removals project. After more than 100 years Fish can now swim up the Klamath River. Construction crews broke through the Fourth and final dam this morning opening up more than 400 miles of native fish habitat. This was a big win for Native American tribes who spent the past 20 years getting federal and state approval to remove four obsolete hydroelectric dams that were in Oregon. Restoration crews will spend the next several years planti

After over a century, salmon have returned to the upper Klamath River, waters that hadn’t seen their shimmer since the early 1900s. The nation’s largest dam removal project has reawakened the river, freeing it from four massive barriers that once halted its flow and silenced the salmon runs that sustained Indigenous tribes for millennia. The Klamath, Shasta, Karuk, Yurok, and Hoopa Valley peoples see this as both a victory and a responsibility, a rebirth tempered by the question: what are the fi