Two large wildfires in Northern California, one near Shasta Lake, continue to burn amid extremely hot weather, sending smoke ...

The Yurok Tribe’s annual salmon festival in Klamath, California, is a little different this year. Yes, there’s a noisy parade, yes there are dozens of stalls selling T-shirts and jewelry, yes ...

An effort to return 73 square miles of forests to California’s Yurok Tribe has been completed. Organizers say the deal will help restore and protect vital habitat for salmon in Blue Creek.

Meanwhile, the Klamath River, which flows from Oregon to California, had the second-lowest forecast for chinook salmon since 1997, when the current assessment method started.

A February report by the Pacific Fishery Management Council found that only 6,160 fall-run Chinook wild salmon, also known as king salmon, returned to the upper Sacramento River in 2023 to spawn ...

“California salmon are in dire straits,” said Nate Mantua, ... So there was joy on the Klamath River last month as crews broke ground on a megaproject to remove four old hydroelectric dams, ...

For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon have free passage along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — as the largest ...

To save even some of the Sacramento River’s salmon population, in a year where pumping water to farms has resulted in dangerously low water flows, California has had to resort to hauling ...

The Salmon River flows into the Klamath River, which has its headwaters in Oregon, and this population is one of the last wild runs left in the entire Klamath Basin, where dams are slated to be ...

Chinook Salmon swim up a fish ladder at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Feather River Hatchery just below the Lake Oroville dam during the California drought emergency on May ...

Salmon seen in California's North Yuba River for first time in almost a century. By Sam Mauhay-Moore, National Parks Reporter Feb 22, 2025. Researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and California ...

The Sacramento River, wide and swift, is the world’s only habitat for winter-run salmon. Thousands of Chinooks leave the frigid Pacific in December to begin a roughly 325-mile swim upstream to ...