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The Eel River’s Return: California’s Third Largest Watershed Is on its Way to Flowing Free and CalTrout Has a Plan for its Restoration

The Eel River’s Return: California’s Third Largest Watershed Is on its Way to Flowing Free and CalTrout Has a Plan for its Restoration

by California Trout | Feb 23, 2025

After more than a century of impoundment, California’s third-largest river is on the path to running free once again. The Eel River, which once supported some of the West Coast’s most abundant salmon runs, is entering a new era of restoration and renewal...
NID Withdraws Centennial Dam Proposal After SYRCL’s Decade-Long Opposition 

NID Withdraws Centennial Dam Proposal After SYRCL’s Decade-Long Opposition 

by South Yuba River Citizens League | Sep 25, 2024

On September 25th, the Nevada Irrigation District voted on the future of their proposed Centennial Dam project, a $1 billion project that SYRCL has rallied the community in opposition to since its inception. In August of 2014, the Nevada Irrigation District (NID)...
The Klamath Dam Removals: A Story of People and Possibility

The Klamath Dam Removals: A Story of People and Possibility

by American Rivers | Sep 9, 2024

As I stood on a bridge and looked upstream along the Klamath River, I felt confused. For over 15 years, I had stood in the same stop and gazed on the earthen face of Iron Gate Dam. But on this day, I saw…space. Framing the edges of that space, I saw canyon walls,...
Monthly Newsletter: Klamath Dam Removals: A Tale of the Power of Collaboration and Persistence

Monthly Newsletter: Klamath Dam Removals: A Tale of the Power of Collaboration and Persistence

by Hydropower Reform Coalition | Aug 30, 2024

A river basin once split in half for more than a century will be reconnected this fall with the completion of the nation’s largest dam removal and river restoration project. Over the past two years, four dams were removed from the Klamath River: J.C. Boyle in southern...
Klamath reconnected: The four dams are gone

Klamath reconnected: The four dams are gone

by Trout Unlimited | Aug 28, 2024

Big things happen when committed people decide that failure is not an option

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