Iron Gate dam on May 1, 2024. Juliet Grable / JPR. The day began clear and chilly. By 8:00 a.m., the temperature hovered around freezing. Leaf Hillman and Lisa Morehead-Hillman, Karuk Tribe ...

The Iron Gate Dam was the last of the dams built to provide electricity to Northern California in the early 20th century. The reservoir behind the 173-foot-high dam, which went into service in ...

On Thursday, the gate on a 16-foot-wide bypass tunnel at the base of Iron Gate dam, the lowest of those slated to be removed, was opened from a crack to 36 inches.

Last year, the final of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River were removed in the largest project of its kind in US ...

Construction crews removed the top of the cofferdam that was left of Iron Gate Dam allowing the Klamath River to run in its original path for the first time in nearly a century near Hornbrook ...

Visiting an overlook during the final phase of dam removal work at the Iron Gate Dam, Mark Bransom, chief executive of the Klamath River Renewal Corp., said: “In a month’s time, you won’t ...

The removal of the four hydroelectric dams — Iron Gate Dam, Copco Dams 1 and 2, and JC Boyle Dam — allows the region’s iconic salmon population to swim freely along the Klamath River and its ...

FILE - The Iron Gate Dam powerhouse and spillway on the lower Klamath River in 2020. They have since been removed. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File) ...

Michael Belchik, senior water policy analyst for the Yurok Tribe, said he is hopeful they’ll get past the Iron Gate dam soon. “I think we’re going to have some early successes,” he said.

A view of Iron Gate Dam on the Klamath River before its removal. UC Davis scientists are studying whether dam removal will help restore salmon populations. (Alysha Beck /UC Davis) That Dam Removal ...

Construction crews removed the top of the cofferdam that was left of Iron Gate Dam allowing the Klamath River to run in its original path for the first time in nearly a century near Hornbrook ...