Dam Removal

OPB video captures four Klamath River dam sites and Copco Lake reservoir before and after a $500 million removal operation.

Tribal project aims to restore 300 miles of waterway across the region

Will the restoration of Klamath River runs help restore California’s struggling salmon fishing industry?

The money will be used for an aging dam on the Illinois River in southern Oregon and updating infrastructure to improve fish migration on the Wallowa River in the northeast of the state.

From birds to frogs, from bugs to plants, dozens of volunteers gathered in Milwaukie over the weekend to count as many different species they can find, two years ahead of the planned removal of the 166-year-old Kellogg Dam.

Deconstruction of Iron Gate dam, the lowest of the four dams along the Oregon-California border, has begun.

By the end of the week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will have released 90,000 yearling coho as well as 400,000 Chinook salmon fry into the Klamath River.

We hear the perspective of tribes living along the Klamath River: what the country’s largest dam removal project means to them and their hopes for the future.

On the Oregon-California border, four Klamath River dams are coming out in the country’s largest dam removal project. It’s giving some along the river new hope — and leaving others uncertain about their future.

Drawdown of three reservoirs on the Klamath River is well underway, and this step in the dam removal process has already dramatically altered the landscape along the river in Southern Oregon and far Northern California.