Juliet Grable
JPR News ContributorJuliet Grable is a writer based in Southern Oregon and a regular contributor to JPR News. She writes about wild places and wild creatures, rural communities, and the built environment. Juliet is a volunteer firefighter and EMT for the Greensprings Rural Fire District. During her off time, she can be found exploring back roads and back country with her husband Brint and pup Roca.
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'It means the river has a future': Advocates cheer milestone as water flows from a Klamath River damThis week, water started being released from a reservoir on the Klamath River, kicking off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. -
The next big phase of the Klamath River Dam removal started this week. It's the largest dam removal in U.S. history and is expected to last through 2024.
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In the coming weeks, water will be let out from behind the three remaining dams on the Klamath River. A century's worth of sediment that has piled up behind the dams will also flow downriver.
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C’waam and Koptu are intertwined in the Klamath Tribes’ culture. But poor water quality has made Upper Klamath Lake lethal for juvenile fish.
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The Klamath dam removal is uncovering painful history for the Shasta Indian Nation. But the tribe’s leaders also see a chance to recover some of their lost lands, restoring ceremony, language, and community in the process.
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Rafting the Upper Klamath River is possible through the summer thanks to releases of water from the J.C. Boyle Dam, which will be removed next year. When guides return to the Upper Klamath in 2025, this stretch of the river will be forever changed.
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Removing the Copco 2 dam takes deconstruction crews one step closer to drawdowns of the remaining three reservoirs next January.
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The impending removal of four hydroelectric dams on the main stem of the Klamath River has thrown the normally tranquil community of Copco Lake into turmoil.
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For over a century, four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border have cut off habitat to fish swimming up the Klamath River from the ocean. Now, researchers are in the midst of a project to learn how fish will use this ecosystem once the dams are removed.
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In November 2020, Oregon voters passed Measure 109, which allows the psychedelic compound psilocybin to be administered to adults in licensed service centers. The state’s first cohort of trained psilocybin-assisted therapy facilitators are completing their programs this spring.
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Restoration contractor Resource Environmental Solutions and area tribes will plant up to 19 billion native seeds as the Klamath Dams come out and reservoirs are drained.
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Though tributaries like Horse Creek are far out of the spotlight, they are an integral part of the whole Klamath River ecosystem. Without these, it’s unlikely that dam removal alone will help coho and Chinook fully recover.
