September 11, 2024
Slideshows
Photo courtesy of Shane Anderson/Swiftwater Films
Iron Gate Dam prior to removal.
Photo courtesy of Shane Anderson/Swiftwater Films
An aerial view of an algal bloom in Iron Gate Reservoir.
Photo by Matt Mais/Yurok Tribe
A crowd of tribal members, environmentalists and officials watches as excavators breach a small temporary coffer dam at the former site of Iron Gate Dam, allowing the lower Klamath River to run free for the first time in more than a century.
Photo courtesy of Resource Environmental Solutions
A Yurok Tribe crew replants an area along Long Gulch in the footprint of Iron Gate Reservoir with bareroot native shrubs, including Klamath plum, after the removal of invasive vegetation in the area.
Photo courtesy of Resource Environmental Solutions
Resource Environmental Solutions staff work below the Iron Gate Dam to relocate fish prior to dam removal.
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Photo by Matt Mais/Yurok Tribe
A crowd of tribal members, environmentalists and officials watches as excavators breach a small temporary coffer dam at the former site of Iron Gate Dam, allowing the lower Klamath River to run free for the first time in more than a century.