A floating blockade stretches across the Klamath River waiting to stop boats carrying Yurok and Karuk tribal officials and Berkshire Hathaway executives upriver on Aug. 28, 2020. It was a Friday in late August when four jet boats made their way up the Klamath River under a cloudless blue sky. The boats carried three tribal chairs. From the Karuk Tribe, there was Russell Buster Attebery, who d found pride as a boy catching salmon from the river and bringing them home to his family, and later come to believe some tribal youth s troubles from suicides to substance use could be traced back to their never having had that opportunity, growing up alongside a river now choked with algae and diminishing fish populations. There was Joseph James from the Yurok Tribe, who d come to see the river s declining health as a slow strangulation of his people river people who have lived along its banks and relied on its salmon as the bedrock of their diet since time im
Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 3:15 PM click to enlarge Thomas Dunklin Irongate Dam on the upper Klamath River is one of four hydroelectric dams now slated to be removed in 2023. Once again, a hard-fought accord to remove four hydroelectric dams choking the lower Klamath River has been resuscitated, a group of stakeholders announced in a press conference Tuesday. The agreement, which is more than a decade in the making and would result in one of the largest dam removal efforts in the world and the largest river restoration project in U.S. history, is back on after stakeholders were able to coax the dams’ owner the Berkshire Hathaway owned PacifiCorp Power back into the agreement after a federal ag