Rebuilding the World: The Inspiring Success of the Klamath Dam Removals

The 2024 removal of four dams on the Klamath River is an amazing example of how, when you address a human-based problem, nature can come back.

Since 2002, I’ve been reporting on the generations-long battle led by Klamath River tribes to take down four dams damaging the northern California river and its salmon. Recently Natasha Benjamin and I got to interview Amy Bowers Cordalis, the former general counsel for the Yurok Tribe, the largest of California’s tribes, about her new book The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life. We did this on our Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast.

Read the article here.