Cases / Law, regulation and treaties · United States · date not stated
Salmon return to upper Klamath basin after historic dam removal
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Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Salmon returned to the upper Klamath basin within a year of a historic dam removal in Oregon, OPB reported in 2025. The sources reviewed give no counts or costs for the removal.
What?
A historic dam removal in Klamath, Oregon, after which salmon returned to the upper basin within a year, OPB reported. OPB
Where?
Klamath, Oregon, United States OPB
When?
Reported 31 October 2025 OPB
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Removal of a dam, after which salmon returned to the upper basin within a year. OPB
5 of 6 questions answered from the record · open: who
What happened
The record, in order.
OPB reported in 2025 that salmon returned to the upper Klamath basin within a year of a historic dam removal.
The OPB article, dated 31 October 2025, concerns a historic dam removal in Klamath, Oregon.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- None on record Not stated in the sources reviewed: the dates of the removal, the dam owners, the cost, or the number of fish that returned.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: 542 barrier removals in Europe in 2024, and a reversed dam decision in Korea; both lack a source URL in the material collected.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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