For the first time in more than a century, salmon will have free passage along the more than 400 miles of the Klamath River and its tributaries as the largest dam removal project in U.S. history along the California-Oregon border nears completion.
FILE - A dam on the lower Klamath River known as Copco 2 is seen near Hornbrook, Calif., on March 3, 2020. FILE - The Klamath River winds runs along Highway 96 on June 7, 2021, near Happy Camp, Calif. FILE - Gilbert Myers takes a water temperature reading at a chinook salmon trap in the lower Klamath River in California on June 8, 2021.
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.
The fish population dwindled dramatically. In 2002, a bacterial outbreak caused by low water and warm temperatures killed more than 34,000 fish, mostly Chinook salmon. That jumpstarted decades of advocacy from tribes and environmental groups, culminating in 2022 when federal regulators The project was expected to cost about $500 million — paid for by taxpayers and PacifiCorps ratepayers.
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