For more than 100 years, hydroelectric dams blocked the Klamath River in Oregon and northern California, impeding once abundant salmon runs. But that changed last year when the last of the dams was demolished.
To celebrate, several dozen Indigenous youths kayaked the 310-mile length of the river this summer in a monthlong descent organized by the nonprofit Ríos to Rivers.
“We got to complete this journey because of the people that came before us and ensured a free-flowing river,” Ke-Get Omar Dean V, 18, a member of the Yurok Tribe, said in a statement after the journey.
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