Inside the fight behind one of the largest-ever dam removals 

It's gone as of two days ago!!!!!! Yaaaay

I’m in southern Oregon. We just blew a dam open a couple days ago and the landscape is literally changing in real time, right before our eyes. The reservoirs are shrinking into small streams, exposing landscape we’ve never seen before.

That moving blue river water looks so much better than the green, algae-filled, stagnant reservoir water.

I am thrilled that the dams are coming down and wish the tribes success in the restoration of the river. I wish I was young enough to help in those efforts.

I look forward to camping on that river once it is free.

As soon as I saw the headline, I knew it had to be one of our local rivers and dams.

Bravo!

Oh, you dont want to be inside that dam when they remove it. !

Now we can ban all gill net fishing on the river. Tribe can use fishing poles, like every buddy else.

This dam project did not open up 400 miles of river. The river is free flowing from the mouth of the river at the ocean to the first dam that is east of Yreka almost 300 miles away. Removing the dams opened up about 100 miles of river. The thing that no-one is talking about is that the water from the Upper Klamath Lake is not clean and cool. It is a shallow lake that a lot of algae in it and the water is warm. I hope that it all works out. The other problem that our government won't address is that China is overfishing our oceans and taking large quantities of our fish.

So what is the alternative electric source for the community?

The same tribe people when the river is back open to fishing will put up gill nets from bank to bank and take every single fish they can.