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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. -
Haven Daley/APLess 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.
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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. -
With the drawdown of three reservoirs complete, the Klamath River is flowing more or less within its historic channel. -
Construction crews blasted a hole in the Copco No. 1 dam on Tuesday. It鈥檚 the final dam of four that will be removed in the hydroelectric reach of the Klamath River this year. -
In the coming weeks, water will be let out from behind the three remaining dams on the Klamath River. A century's worth of sediment that has piled up behind the dams will also flow downriver. -
Members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe on Washington's Olympic Peninsula harvested about 200 coho salmon from their home river in October. That marked a milestone for river restoration a decade after two dams on the Elwha River were dismantled. It could also offer a window into the future of the Klamath River, as four dams there are being removed. -
Researchers at Oregon State and three Northwest tribes say removing Klamath River dams will flush out hot spots of bacteria and parasites harmful to fish. -
As four aging hydroelectric dams are demolished, tribes and communities along the Klamath River wait anxiously to see what the future holds. 鈥淥nce a river is dammed, is it damned forever?鈥� experts ask. -
Rafting the Upper Klamath River is possible through the summer thanks to releases of water from the J.C. Boyle Dam, which will be removed next year. When guides return to the Upper Klamath in 2025, this stretch of the river will be forever changed. -
Removing the Copco 2 dam takes deconstruction crews one step closer to drawdowns of the remaining three reservoirs next January. -
The impending removal of four hydroelectric dams on the main stem of the Klamath River has thrown the normally tranquil community of Copco Lake into turmoil. -
For over a century, four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border have cut off habitat to fish swimming up the Klamath River from the ocean. Now, researchers are in the midst of a project to learn how fish will use this ecosystem once the dams are removed. -
Twenty years ago, tribal youth founded the Salmon Run to call for the removal of four dams along the Klamath River. This year鈥檚 run will coincide with work to demolish them.
