WEITCHPEC, Calif. — At first, the dead floated downstream a few at a time. Then they came by the hundreds, and then the thousands. For mile after mile, the Klamath River was filled with tens of ...

The July 2023 Great Vermont Floods destroyed scores of buildings, including the Inn by the River in Hardwick. The town, which received federal funds to buy the property and demolish the building, ...

After decades of waiting for two dams to come down on the Elwha River on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, and another decade of monitoring salmon populations, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (LEKT) ...

It’s been a little more than a year since four dams on the Klamath River came down — the biggest river restoration project in U.S. history. In that time, tribal, state, nonprofit and federal ...

The first time river guide Bart Baldwin ever dipped a paddle into whitewater, he was rafting Oregon’s Upper Klamath River. “It spoiled me,” recalls Baldwin, who grew up near the river. That initial ...

HORNBROOK, Calif. — This time next year, a series of massive dams that block off the Klamath River will no longer exist. The soil and rocks originally dug and transported from a nearby mountain in the ...

Wending its way from the Olympic Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington’s Elwha River is now free. For about century, the Elwha and Gilnes Canyon Dams corralled these waters. Both have ...

The largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed Oct. 2 on the Klamath River in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Four dams were taken out, allowing adult salmon to swim all the ...

HARDWICK – It’s the biggest dam-removal project in Massachusetts, and some aren’t too happy about it. Luke Wright owns a hydroelectric dam in Ware that’s about 10 miles downriver from the Wheelwright ...

Dams disrupt sediment and hydrologic connectivity, fragmenting river ecosystems and altering geomorphic and ecological processes. In response, dam removals have increased to restore longitudinal ...

Dams increased rapidly along Berkshire rivers and streams in the 1800s. Many remain today, including the Bel Air Dam in Pittsfield. In 1876, Pittsfield historian J.E.A. Smith chronicled a venture to ...