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Tribes celebrate as dam removals set Klamath river ‘free’ for first time in a century

Tribes celebrate as dam removals set Klamath river ‘free’ for first time in a century

Crews breached the final of four dams on a key stretch of the Klamath River on Wednesday, letting salmon run freely there for the first time in over a century and garnering tears from Indigenous activists who had campaigned for the dam removals for decades. Together the four demolitions mark the largest dam removal project in U.history.

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