NID Withdraws Centennial Dam Proposal After SYRCL’s Decade-Long Opposition
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
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
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
Big things happen when committed people decide that failure is not an option