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August 30, 2024

Klamath River Flows Freely Again After Crews Take Down Last Dam
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Environmentalists and Indigenous communities in California and Oregon
are celebrating after work crews this week breached the last of four
dams along the Klamath River, completing the largest dam removal project
in U.S. history. For decades, conservationists, led by the Yurok, Karuk
and Hupa tribes, fought to remove the dams, citing their heavy toll on
salmon spawning grounds. Yurok Tribe Vice Chairman Frankie Myers said in
a statement, "The dams that have divided the basin are now gone and the
river is free. Our sacred duty to our children, our ancestors, and for
ourselves, is to take care of the river, and today's events represent a
fulfillment of that obligation."


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