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Juliet Grable/JPR NewsThere'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. -
Crystal NicholsCrews have finished the demolition of a large dam near Cave Junction that hindered passage of salmon and other fish..
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Less than a month after four towering dams on the Klamath River were demolished, hundreds of salmon made it into waters they have been cut off from for decades to spawn in cool creeks. -
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. -
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. -
The Siskiyou County Supervisors had asked for the emergency declaration in response to water quality concerns related to Klamath River dam removal. -
A new landscape and river are emerging in the Klamath Basin. -
By the end of the week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will have released 90,000 yearling coho as well as 400,000 Chinook salmon fry into the Klamath River. -
Large numbers of young Chinook salmon were found dead two days after being released from a state hatchery. But biologists say river conditions were okay and they were shocked by the die-off. The suspected cause is pressure changes in a Klamath dam tunnel.
