Young Native American kayakers have completed a month long, 500km journey down the Klamath River, whose last dam is finally ...

The Klamath River flows by the remaining pieces of the Copco 2 Dam after deconstruction in June 2023. Juliet Grable / JPR. The first of four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border ...

Copco 2 Dam, a smaller, 25-foot dam built in 1925 next to Copco 1 J.C. Boyle Dam in Southern Oregon, named after engineer John C. Boyle , who designed the Klamath River dams for the California ...

Mark Bransom, CEO for Klamath River Renewal Corp., which is charged with the removal project, said in a recent report that the preparations to remove Copco Dam 2 are on schedule with the actual ...

Copco No. 2 was a diversion dam, so it did not have a large reservoir like other dams. This year, coho salmon counts in the Klamath were abysmal. Many look to dam removal as a saving grace for ...

“Dam removal is just a piece of an even larger vision and that, as I said before, is fixing the entire Klamath River.” Jackson Guilfoil can be reached at 707-441-0506. Originally Published ...

Dam removal activities are set to begin in 2023, starting with the Copco No. 2 dam. Deconstruction of the remaining three dams is expected to occur at about the same time in early 2024.

An explosion removes a plug in the Copco 1 Dam on Tuesday, and water begins to flow through the breach. Copco 1, the oldest of the three remaining dams on the Klamath River, was breached Tuesday.

JC Boyle Dam, one of the Klamath’s four lowermost dams that is slated for removal. Credit: Paul Robert Wolf Wilson What FERC’s approval means . The next legal steps are largely technical.

The first step in the removal of four Klamath River dams is underway. Deconstruction of Copco No. 2, the smallest of the four hydroelectric dams being removed from the Klamath River, started this ...

Will Volpert was rafting through a Class IV rapid on the Klamath River, in a canyon few have floated in a century, when something leaped out of the water near his oar blade. A chinook salmon was ...

Last week, crews officially wrapped up the deconstruction of Copco no. 2, the smallest dam blocking flows on the Klamath River. The structure itself was removed by late September, with crews spendi… ...