California issues "emergency action" for Scott & Shasta River Watersheds
SISKIYOU COUNTY & SACRAMENTO, Cal. -- An emergency action by California is in effect in in Siskiyou County today to limit diverting water from the Scott and Shasta Rivers.
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SISKIYOU COUNTY & SACRAMENTO, Cal. -- An emergency action by California is in effect in in Siskiyou County today to limit diverting water from the Scott and Shasta Rivers.
A wave of dam removals is planned, but salmon strategy relies on voluntary water cuts.
For the Indigenous people who have lived along the Klamath River for centuries, removal of four hydroelectric dams is the start of a long process.
By Rachel Becker Arron Troy Hockaday leaned over the highway railing to peer into the water below, where the Scott River empties into the Klamath near the Oregon border. Beneath the bridge, dozens of threatened coho salmon rested on their journey back from the Pacific. It was the end of October, and they were waiting […]
Even as dams are coming down, Klamath Basin ranchers, tribes battle over water