Workers have begun dismantling the largest dam on the Klamath River. Indigenous activists are celebrating a milestone in restoring a free-flowing river.
Workers have begun dismantling the largest dam on the Klamath River, using machinery to scoop the first loads of rocks from an earthen barrier that has stood near the California-Oregon border for more than six decades. Several Indigenous leaders and activists watched as a single earthmover tore into the top of Iron Gate Dam, starting a pivotal phase in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. As they celebrated the long-awaited moment, they shouted, embraced and offered prayers.
When the work is done, he said, “there will be very little, if any, evidence that those dams were ever there.” The dams were built without tribal consent between 1912 and the 1960s. For Native activists who spent years demanding the removal of dams, the dismantling of Iron Gate Dam holds great symbolic significance . Some of those who attended the gathering on a bluff overlooking the dam said they felt excited and also relieved to see the work finally starting.
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