Klamath

• From February 2007 World Rivers Review 

A broad coalition has come together to call for removal of four dams and restoration of once-thriving salmon runs in the Klamath River.

International Rivers, together with the International Labor Rights Forum, is urging shareholders in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Corp. to support a resolution requesting company management to produce a sustainability report.  The letter sent to the leading shareholder advisory services by International Rivers and ILRF can be downloaded below.

Klamath tribes and allies protest at hydro industry conference in Portland, Oregon. Aug. 2006. (Patrick McCully/International Rivers)

Essay written by California writer Jacques Leslie in 2007 for the forthcoming multimedia exhibit, "Water, Rivers and People."

• December 2008 World Rivers Review: Special Focus on River Restoration

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• December 2008 World Rivers Review: Special Focus on River Restoration
  

In the Western water wars, it's the equivalent of the Berlin Wall coming down. That's how important the demolition of four dams on the salmon-starved Klamath River will be if a promising agreement is carried out.

Today, there is light at the end of the tunnel in the long and contentious battle over the management of the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border, where dams and diversions have decimated once-healthy fisheries, left behind poisonous waters contaminated with algae, and angered tribes, farmers and fishing communities.