The removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River—completed in 2024 as the largest such project in U.S. history—has been widely celebrated as a monumental victory for Indigenous tribes, particularly the Yurok and Karuk, whose decades-long advocacy restored salmon habitats and cultural life ways. Yet, as environmental activist Felice Pace argues in a recent letter to editors, this narrative overlooks a critical economic factor: PacifiCorp’s decision, under Berkshire Hathaway ownership, to decommission rather than fight…
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