Undamming Klamath
The story behind the largest dam removal in history — and the twenty-year Indigenous-led fight to free the Klamath River and bring the salmon home.
Undamming Klamath is a story of overcoming impossible odds — three times over. First, a multi-generational, Indigenous-led movement rises against capitalism, colonization, and extractive economies that pushed a river to its breaking point. Then, an unprecedented engineering feat: the simultaneous removal of four large hydroelectric dams — the largest dam removal and river restoration project in history — paired with the largest Native revegetation effort ever attempted. Finally, it is nature’s turn to defy expectations: an ecosystem left a lifeless moonscape roars back faster than anyone predicted, culminating in over 10,000 salmon spawning above the former dams for the first time in a century. Dam removal is not an ending. It’s the opening chapter of a new restorative vision — for the Klamath, the West, and beyond. salmon return, and if restoration can lead to the revival of the health of the river and the communities that depend on it.
Film Topics Include:
Shane Anderson
DirectorMaya Craig
Producer
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