Fisheries Technicians Ben Harrison, left, and Aaron Tuttle, right, run a net to collect juvenile coho salmon for pit tagging in Horse Creek along the Klamath River on July 18, 2023.
Juvenile chinook salmon collected for lab testing on the Klamath River near Weitchpec on July 20, 2023.
A view of the Klamath River on July 19, 2023.
A bumper sticker on Mike Polmateer’s, Fisheries Field Supervisor, truck reads “Save the salmon, tear down the dams,” in Horse Creek along the Klamath River on July 18, 2023.
A view of Iron Gate dam, one of three hydroelectric dams being removed on the Klamath River, on July 17, 2023.
Docks lay on the banks of a receding shoreline of Copco Lake on July 17, 2023. With the removal of three hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, Copco Lake will return to its natural river form, leaving properties on the lake no longer waterfront.
Oshun O'Rourke, Senior Fisheries Biologist, Klamath Program, Yurok Tribe, along the Klamath River near Weitchpec on July 20, 2023.
Fisheries technicians open a probe to collect tracking data of salmon on the Klamath River near Weitchpec on July 20, 2023.
Gilbert Myers, fisheries technician, Klamath Program, Yurok Tribe, collects aquatic bug samples from the Klamath River alongside the I-5 on July 19, 2023.
Jamie Holt, senior fisheries technician, Klamath Program, Yurok Tribe, examines aquatic bug samples taken from the Klamath River on July 19, 2023.