California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Ceo of PacifiCorp, along with more than 30 stakeholder groups, including the Karuk, Yurok and Klamath Tribes signed agreements for removal of four Klamath river dams. It provides for restoration of salmon habitat, allocates water rights and guarantees water deliveries to both farmers and the environment.
Removing the dams — scheduled to begin in 2020 if full funding is approved — will open hundreds of miles of river that have been closed to salmon for a century.
Ron Reed from the Karuk Tribe fishing for Salmon
“The salmon are really the base of our culture,” says Annalia Norris, 33, of the Klamath tribe at the mouth of the river.
“We honor the fish; they’re the ones that give us life and feed us,” Norris says. “That’s our whole culture. It’s centered around the salmon – we’re salmon people.”
"The care of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human heart." Tanaka Shozo
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Great News! Congratulations to all the river warriors that worked so hard for this- Tribes, Activists, and River Runners! Let the salmon, sturgeon, eel, and and water run free! I will be there to watch the dams come down!
Thanks for plugging the agreements! Also we have a website with more info you can share with folks that may have questions – http://www.klamathrestoration.org
would love to list you guys as “restoration partners” under the partners link…let me know if that works for you
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