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In this March 4, 2020, photo, Chook-Chook Hillman, a member of the Karuk tribe, sits along the banks of the Klamath River in Orleans, Calif. Hillman works to restore native salmon populations as part of his job with the Karuk's fisheries program and is fighting to remove four dams on the lower Klamath River to benefit dwindling numbers of salmon that are critical to the tribe's culture and diet. A plan to demolish the dams on California's second-largest river has sharpened a decades-old dispute over who has the biggest claim to the river's life-giving waters. The project, if it goes forward, would be the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history and reopen 400 stream miles of potential salmon habitat that's been blocked off for more than a century. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

In this March 4, 2020, photo, Chook-Chook Hillman, a member of the Karuk tribe, sits along the banks of the Klamath River in Orleans, Calif. Hillman works to restore native salmon populations as part of his job with the Karuk's fisheries program and is fighting to remove four dams on the lower Klamath River to benefit dwindling numbers of salmon that are critical to the tribe's culture and diet. A plan to demolish the dams on California's second-largest river has sharpened a…

March 29, 2020

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Largest US dam removal stirs debate over coveted West water
March 29, 2020 8:18 a.m.

Largest US dam removal stirs debate over coveted West water

KLAMATH, Calif. (AP) — The second-largest river in California has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees who built dream homes along its banks.