For the first time in more than a century, salmon are swimming freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries near the California-Oregon line.
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Scientists will use SONAR technology to continue to track migrating fish including Chinook salmon, Coho salmon and steelhead trout throughout the fall and winter to provide"important data on the river’s healing process,” Goodman said in a statement. “While dam removal is complete, recovery will be a long process.”
As of February, more than 2,000 dams had been removed in the U.S., the majority in the last 25 years, according to the advocacy group American Rivers. Among them were dams on Washington state’s Elwha River, which flows out of Olympic National Park into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Condit Dam on the White Salmon River, a tributary of the Columbia.
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