American West(s): How the Yurok Tribe is reclaiming the Klamath River
You may remember the Yurok Tribe’s General Counsel Amy Cordalis from the Patagonia film Artifishal. The Klamath water crisis has shaped the Yurok Tribe …
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Klamath River Dam Removal Permits Issued
California reached a major milestone in the long campaign by Tribes, fishermen, and conservationists to remove four Klamath River dams. The Water Resources Control Board …
Drones, Algae and Fish Ears: What We’re Learning Before the World’s Largest Dam-removal Project
Scientists studying conditions on the Klamath River hope to help recovery efforts here and around the world, but they still lack dedicated funding. Making the …
The Klamath River now has the legal rights of a person
This summer, the Yurok Tribe declared rights of personhood for the Klamath River — likely the first to do so for a river in North …
Big Week for Klamath Dam Removal
This week, the California Water Board will hold public hearings on a draft Environmental Impact Report for the removal of the lower four Klamath River …
Plan filed to remove four Klamath dams
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history is set to begin in 2020 on the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, according to documents filed …
How the Yurok Tribe is reclaiming the Klamath River
On a warm September Saturday in 2002, Amy Cordalis stood in a Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department boat on the Klamath River, in response to reports …
History Made on California’s Klamath River
After a 10-year effort the Yurok Tribe, Western Rivers Conservancy, Opportunity Fund, and U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation, a division of U.S. Bank, successfully create …
Feds won’t oppose Klamath River dam removal
A bit of good news coming out of the Department of the Interior. A top Interior Department official said in a recent interview with an …
Karuk Tribe seeks to list Klamath River salmon as endangered
A once bountiful run of Klamath River salmon now teetering near the edge of extinction could gain protections under the federal Endangered Species Act based …