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A Losing Trade – Quality of Human Life + Millions of Animals Dead For What? The Possibility of a Better Salmon Run?

Cover photo courtesy: William E. Simpson II

Deadly toxic sludge released from Iron Gate and Copco Lake bottom sediments. Photo: William E. Simpson II

For over 100-years after the first dam was installed (Copco 1 Dam) and over 60-years after Iron Gate Dam was installed, there was nevertheless a decent run of Salmon and steelhead in the Klamath River, even with all of the changing ocean conditions, climate change, and OVERFISHING by both indigenous people and others.โ€ฆ

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