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FILE - In this March 2, 2020, file photo, birds take off from a marsh in the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in the Klamath Basin along the Oregon-California border. The refuge is not far from four dams on the lower Klamath River that could soon be demolished in the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history. The proposal to remove the dams on California's second-largest river to benefit threatened salmon has sharpened a decades-old dispute over who has the biggest claim to the river's life-giving waters. Federal regulators on Thursday, July 16, 2020, threw a significant curveball at a coalition that has been planning for years to demolish four massive hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border to save salmon. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)

抖阴ap: What a long, strange trip to kill four dams

January 11, 2023 at 10:02 a.m.

Finally, after a 50-year effort, four massive dams on the Klamath River in northern California and Oregon will start coming down this July.

FILE - This Oct. 19, 2016, file photo shows the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River in Washington state. A little-known federal program that avoids publicity to protect from looters the thousands of Native American sites it's tasked with managing has been caught up in a big net. The Federal Columbia River System Cultural Resources Program, which tracks some 4,000 historic sites that also include homesteads and missions, is now contributing information as authorities prepare a court-ordered environmental impact statement concerning struggling salmon and the operation of 14 federal dams in the Columbia River Basin. (Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review via AP, File) /The Spokesman-Review via AP)

抖阴ap: Will salmon finally win this year?

August 2, 2022 at 1:11 p.m.

For the last 35 years I鈥檝e been covering what we call the 鈥渟almon wars鈥� in the Pacific Northwest, writing so many stories about salmon heading toward extinction that I鈥檝e lost...