Juliet Grable
JPR News ContributorJuliet Grable is a writer based in Southern Oregon and a regular contributor to JPR News. She writes about wild places and wild creatures, rural communities, and the built environment. Juliet is a volunteer firefighter and EMT for the Greensprings Rural Fire District. During her off time, she can be found exploring back roads and back country with her husband Brint and pup Roca.
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There's some very sophisticated technology being used to try to understand how migrating salmon and steelhead are re-inhabiting the river, now that four hydroelectric dams have been removed. Then there are other research methods that are as much art as science. -
Chinook salmon are spawning in streams above four former dam sites on the Klamath River in numbers that are astounding biologists. Now, a network of tribes, agencies, university researchers, and conservation groups is working together to track the fish as they explore the newly opened habitat. -
Biologists from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and The Klamath Tribes have discovered several salmon in a tributary of the Klamath River in Oregon, above the site of four dams that were removed earlier this year. -
A non-profit group fights an uphill battle to save the victims of a massive outbreak of avian botulism that continues to ravage waterfowl at one of the Klamath National Wildlife Refuges. -
Increased water allocation to the Klamath Basin wildlife refuges is helping mitigate a summer botulism outbreak that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of migratory birds. -
Now that two temporary cofferdams鈥攐ne at Iron Gate dam; one at Copco 1鈥攈ave been breached, the Klamath is running freely, and salmon will be able to access 420 miles of habitat that had been blocked by the dams. -
Only a few hundred coastal martens exist. Their range spans from Cape Perpetua in Oregon to Trinidad, on California鈥檚 north coast. Researchers are worried that a single catastrophe could send the species on the path to extinction. -
A combination of botulism and bird flu has led to estimates of thousands of birds dying in the Klamath National Wildlife Refuge Complex this summer. -
A new landscape and river are emerging in the Klamath Basin. -
Insurance companies and residents alike are struggling to adapt to a new era of risk in the face of climate-driven wildfires, and property owners in rural communities are on the front lines. -
The agreement marks a significant moment for the tribe, which has been without a land base for over 100 years. -
A new and improved Oregon wildfire hazard map is coming.
