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In this March 5, 2020, Georgiana Gensaw, a member of the Yurok Indian tribe, displays a tattoo of a fish hawk clutching a salmon in its talons that she had inked on her right bicep to honor her son, whose middle name is Ker-neet, the Yurok word for fish hawk, in Klamath, Calif. Gensaw, who lives where the Klamath River reaches the Pacific Ocean in Klamath. A plan to demolish four dams on the lower Klamath 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. Numerous tribes in southern Oregon and northern California, including the Yurok, are pushing for the dams' removal to save dwindling salmon populations in California's second-largest river. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

In this March 5, 2020, Georgiana Gensaw, a member of the Yurok Indian tribe, displays a tattoo of a fish hawk clutching a salmon in its talons that she had inked on her right bicep to honor her son, whose middle name is Ker-neet, the Yurok word for fish hawk, in Klamath, Calif. Gensaw, who lives where the Klamath River reaches the Pacific Ocean in Klamath. A plan to demolish four dams on the lower Klamath River has sharpened a decades-old dispute over who has the biggest cla…

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.