“Standing on the shoulders of decades of work by our Tribal partners.”
The impact of an environmental restoration project on the California-Oregon border has seen almost instant results.
After the largest dam removal effort in U.S. history was completed in the Klamath River, salmon are once again swimming in the stretch of water and its tributaries, marking their return after over a century.
“It’s been over 100 years since a wild salmon last swam through this reach of the Klamath River,” Damon Goodman, a regional director for the non-profit conservation group California Trout, told the Guardian. “I am incredibly humbled to witness this moment and share this news, standing on the shoulders of decades of work by our Tribal partners, as the salmon return home.”…