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

It’s the largest dam removal project in the world, and it’s reshaping the Klamath River forever. Four dams are gone. Over 400 miles of salmon habitat were restored. But this historic transformation comes with challenges, raging debates, environmental impacts, and a monumental cultural victory for local tribes. It's a story John Bartell has been following for the past year. Watch the Klamath Dam Removal where tradition meets science, and the future of river restoration is being written. It airs M

When salmon return from the ocean to the Klamath River after the world’s largest dam removal project ends this fall, they will regain access to 400 miles of historical spawning habitat their species has been cut off from for more than a century. From the river to the lab, looking at the very ear bones of fish, scientists with the University of California, Davis, are playing a key role helping to answer a big dam question: Will it work? Will a diverse population of salmon thrive again once the da

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