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    TAKE THEM DOWN!

    Jun 12, 2022 5 minutes

    ‘At first the idea of removing the dams seemed absurd and unattainable,’ says Annelia Hillman, a member of the Yurok Tribe, ‘but we decided we had to try.’ Hillman is talking about the world’s biggest dam removal project to date, which is moving forward in northern California and southern Oregon. Four large hydropower dams on the Klamath River are set to be taken down, restoring hundreds of miles of habitat for salmon and other species that are now in severe decline.

    The push to remove the dams has been in motion for over 20 years, led by several Indigenous groups who maintain close cultural links to the river and its main tributaries, relying on them for fish. Their campaign is an important part of an equally slow-evolving counter-narrative to the idea of dams being monuments

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