"I never thought in my lifetime, or especially in my parents' lifetimes, that we would see the salmon back up in our area,"
"I don't know how to explain it, the monumental, herculean, awesome feat it was for them to go through all that,"
"I mean, impediment after impediment, and then swim through the most toxic water that you could swim through and still make it to the point where you're 360 miles away to spawn. Isn't that awesome?"
A year after four dams were removed on the Klamath River, Chinook salmon have navigated past the last remaining upper-basin dams into the Upper Klamath Basin for the first time since the early 20th century. Video captured a salmon ascending a fish ladder at Keno Dam in late September, and cameras plus radio tags subsequently confirmed upstream presence. At least 200 salmon are believed present in Upper Klamath Lake and tributaries such as the Sprague and Williamson rivers. The fish crossed fish ladders, toxic algae blooms, and agricultural runoff before reaching aquifer-fed pockets and spawning areas roughly 360 miles upriver.
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