The return of our relatives the c'iyaal's is overwhelming for our tribe. This is what our members worked for and believed in for so many decades. I want to honor that work and thank them for their persistence in the face of what felt like an unmovable obstacle. The salmon are just like our tribal people, and they know where home is and returned as soon as they were able.
The dam removal effort was the result of decades of advocacy spearheaded by the Yurok and Karuk tribes, whose people have deep ancestral and economic ties to the river's Chinook salmon.
In 2002, a lack of river flows along the Klamath River created water quality so poor that thousands of salmon died off in a massive fish kill. The event sparked the efforts of Klamath tribes and other local organizations to eventually have the dams removed, a feat that was finally completed in August.
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