Giving Compass' Take:
- Environmental News Network discusses how it may be too late to save the Klamath River's salmon population by removing the dams.
- How are Indigenous communities near the Klamath affected by the drop in the salmon population? How can donors work to prevent other rivers from suffering the same fate?
- Read more about restoring fish passages to save salmon in Washington.
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The removal of four obsolescent hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, expected in 2023 or 2024, should have been an occasion for celebration, recognizing an underdog campaign that managed to set in motion the biggest dam removal project in American history.
But that was before the basin’s troubles turned biblical.
The main reason for removing the dams is that they have played a major role in decimating the basin’s salmon population, to the point that some runs have gone extinct and all others are in severe decline — and the basin’s four Indigenous tribal groups, whose cultures and diets all revolve around fish, have suffered as the fish have dwindled.
Read the full article about the Klamath River salmon at Environmental News Network.