Wednesday March 4, 2026
The Revelator —
Two years ago crews punched holes in three dams on the Klamath River in northern California and southern Oregon. Waters held back for decades rushed free. It wasn’t pretty: For weeks, a river of chocolate milk cut through a raw, monotone landscape of glistening, sticky mud. The dams were removed later in 2024, reconnecting the vast Klamath watershed and opening up hundreds of miles of prime habitat for salmon and other anadromous fish.
Resource Environmental Solutions, or RES, with help from Tribal partners, has taken on the challenge of revegetating the three reservoir footprints — 2,200 acres in all — with native seeds and plants.