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grist.org Grist @grist.org · Mar 20
How the Klamath Dams Came Down.

Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history.

This is their story.

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March 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Dramatic clouds over the Klamath River today.
#clouds
#Klamathriver
#rivers
#photography
July 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Photo taken September 1, 2019, looking down onto the #KlamathRiver from the edge of Highway 96, #SiskiyouCounty, #NorthernCalifornia. This is just below my hometown and when I was younger, I spent many hours fishing and playing around this river. #mountains #photography #nature #rivers
April 2, 2026 at 1:23 PM
November 25, 2024 at 3:16 AM
This transaction represents one of the largest private land purchases by an Indigenous-led land trust in U.S. history. #KlamathRiver #Oregon lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/dec/29/...
Klamath Indigenous Land Trust Buys 10,000 Acres Along the Klamath River From PacifiCorp
lostcoastoutpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
#klamathriver a year after the final dam removal: lots of fish, recovering health. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
A year after the last dam was removed, Klamath River has 'come alive' with salmon
As the Klamath River continues healing from 100 years of mismanagement, tribes and environmentalists must deal with funding cuts and policy changes.
www.azcentral.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#portland #klamathriver War-torn Portland.
September 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
In the wake of dam removal on the #KlamathRiver in the #PacificNorthwest, conservation crews have helped plant and seed thousands of native trees and other vegetation.

#Salmon have responded in kind!

Head to The Revelator to learn more about this cheering story ➡️ bit.ly/40IXP93
March 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
My short but sweet story for @highcountrynews.bsky.social also appears in the Winter print issue. It's accompanied by evocative images by photographer Paul Wilson. #Chinook #KlamathRiver #damremoval #restoration #salmon
www.hcn.org/issues/56-12...
After the Klamath River dams came down, salmon came back - High Country News
What it's like to witness the first run of fish above the removed dams in over a century.
www.hcn.org
December 5, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Tangle-net surveys on the #KlamathRiver. I always love field reporting. Even when the day starts out cold, wet and way too early!
November 15, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Truly amazing and so soon after the recent removal of the last dam!

#salmon #oregon #klamathriver #California

“The return of our relatives the c’iyaal’s is overwhelming for our tribe. This is what our members worked for and believed in for so many decades,” Klamath Tribes Secretary Roberta Frost
October 20, 2024 at 12:29 AM
🎣 After the removal of the dams in Oregon, wild #salmon have made it back into the headwaters of the #KlamathRiver for the first time in over a centur. It marks a huge comeback for the river #ecosystem and the communities connected to it. 🐟🌊🌲
A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
More on the #klamathriver dam removal and what's next via @usatoday.com podcast The Excerpt, with yours truly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJe6...
The Klamath River recovery begins | The Excerpt
YouTube video by USA TODAY
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December 7, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Nature turns a page. With concrete cleared, rapids return. Salmon reclaim old grounds. The river speaks. Restoration is real, because rivers were meant to run free.

#KlamathRiver #DamRemoval #RiverRestoration
The river that came back to life: a journey down the reborn Klamath
Less than a year after four dams were removed from the river, life has blossomed along its banks, presenting new challenges and joys of recovery
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
At the end of August 2024, the #KlamathRiver began to flow freely for the first time in more than a century after the last of four dams were removed. Learn more here:
eros.usgs.gov/media-galler...
#Landsat
A New Flow for the Klamath (Image of the Week)
YouTube video by USGS
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November 19, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Photo taken March 13, 2021, near the junction of the Shasta River and the Klamath River of what looks like a juniper tree that has passed with lichen covering its branches. #lichen #JuniperTree #KlamathRiver #ShastaRiver
December 24, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Klamath salmon are spawning in the #WilliamsonRiver for the 1st time since the early 1900s -- The Yurok Tribe #KlamathRiver coyotegulch.blog/2025/10/19/k...
October 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This gorgeous Mentzelia albicaulis was growing out of dry, rocky ground at the end of August near the newly freed #KlamathRiver. What a trooper! I discovered when I went back to take more pix that it closes in the heat of the day.

#naturephotography #flowerphotography #flowers #nativeplants 🌿
September 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
January 27, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Surprise, surprise…ya mean humans have something to learn from noticing our animal (and plant) relatives…? Who knew…?
#ColoradoRiver
#SnakeRiver
#KlamathRiver
#SkagitRiver
#TakeDownTheDams
#Environment
#Climate
#Science
June 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Earlier this week, the UC ANR President’s Advisory Commission visited Iron Gate Dam—one of 4 removed from the Klamath River. We heard from local leaders on water, ag, tribal restoration, & the nation’s largest dam removal. #UCCE #KlamathRiver
June 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
How absolutely marvelous, Duncan. I live in Humboldt County, California, where restoration of the #KlamathRiver is ongoing and the results are astounding. Fish are swimming hundreds of miles up into tributaries where they haven’t been in over 100 years. Beautiful 🤩
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Dear Klamath River, 2025 will bring you health and happiness with your last dam recently removed. Your waters, once held back, now rush forth with strength and life. All thanks to the tribal communities lining your shores. 🌊
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#undammed #Klamathriver #dearriver #waters #tribestrong
January 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM