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Tribes celebrate the end of the largest dam removal project in US history
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed Wednesday, marking a major victory for tribes in the region who fought for decades to free hundreds of miles of the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border.
Largest dam removal project in US history nears completion
For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon have free passage along the Klamath River and its tributaries 鈥� a major watershed near the California-Oregon border 鈥� as the largest dam removal project in U.S. history nears completion.
Path finally clear for dam demolition on Klamath River
U.S. regulators on Thursday approved a massive plan to聽demolish four dams and open hundreds of miles of salmon habitat.
Major hurdle cleared in plan to demolish 4 dams
Federal regulators have issued a draft environmental impact statement saying there were significant benefits to a plan to demolish four massive dams on the Klamath River.
Klamath River dam removal estimated to cost more than $400M
The removal of four hydroelectric dams in Southern Oregon and Northern California could begin by 2022.
Klamath River dam removal project still on hold
A $450 million plan to demolish four dams on the Klamath River was supposed to be approved by Congress in March of 2012. But a new year has arrived without the go-ahead, and local supporters of the removal plan say they see no definite approval date in sight.
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