Tag: Tribes
Documentary Spotlights Partnerships in Dam Removal
To celebrate its first five years of work, Open Rivers Fund—a program of Resources Legacy Fund, launched in November 2016 with a 10-year, $50-million investment from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation—worked with film director Jason Jaacks to produce a documentary highlighting several dynamic dam removal projects and partnerships that are reshaping waterways across the American […]
Restoring the Klamath River: Science informs where future runs may go
On November 17 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued the Final License Surrender Order for the Lower Klamath River Hydroelectric Project. With this final regulatory hurdle now crossed, the Klamath River Renewal Corporation and its local Tribal and nonprofit partners can remove the four lower Klamath River Dams located on both sides of the […]
Supporting Community and Citizen Science at the Elwha ScienceScape Symposium
Return the Salmon Relay event takes place in Eklutna
Yurok Tribe discovers disease-killed adult Chinook salmon on lower Klamath River
Pacific Northwest tribes want to hold American leaders accountable and remove 4 dams
Acoustic Tagging to Prepare for the Return of Klamath Spring-Run Chinook Salmon
For more than a century, four large dams on the Upper Klamath River have blocked spring-run Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, Pacific lamprey, and other species from their native spawning grounds. The absence of those species has affected the biology of the river and the culture of the communities along it in Northern California and Southern […]