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Four Dam Removals on the Klamath River, with Amy Bowers Cordalis

Four Dam Removals on the Klamath River, with Amy Bowers Cordalis

Update: 2024-07-20
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In this week’s episode, host Margaret Walls talks with Amy Bowers Cordalis, cofounder and principal of Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group, about efforts to remove four dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. Cordalis discusses her experience growing up on the Klamath River as a member of the Yurok Tribe, the ecological damage to the Klamath River Basin and the Yurok Tribe that has been caused by the dams and nearby agricultural production, and the process that led to the removal of the dams.

References and recommendations:

“Undammed” video with Amy Bowers Cordalis; https://www.patagonia.com/stories/undammed/video-148718.html

“Treaty Justice” by Charles Wilkinson; https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752723/treaty-justice/

“The Water Remembers” by Amy Bowers Cordalis; https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-bowers-cordalis/the-water-remembers/9780316568951
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Four Dam Removals on the Klamath River, with Amy Bowers Cordalis

Four Dam Removals on the Klamath River, with Amy Bowers Cordalis

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