SALMON and RIVERENE FISH - DAM DEMOLITIONS LEADS TO NATURAL HABITATS

LA TIMES : LARGE DAMS TO BE DEMOLISH - A VICTORY FOR FISH 

Excerpt: If it goes forward, the deal would revive plants to remove four massive hydroelectric dams on the lower Klamath River, emptying giant reservoirs and reopening potential fish habitation that's been blocked for more than a century.  The massive project would be at the vanguard of a trend toward dam demotions in the U.S. as the structures age and become less economically viable amid growing environmental concerns about the health of native fish.

MOM WHALE LOST IN THE KLAMATH RIVER FINALLY DIES

Linking now to this article about the Pacific Blue whale who swam up a river with her calf and eventually died on a sand bar. Scientists say she had plenty of fat so something else was going on...

" The mother whale entered the river on June 23 with her calf, during the species' migration from Baja California nursing grounds to Arctic home waters. They immediately became a tourist attraction. After the calf swam back into the ocean on July 23, facing an uncertain future, marine mammal experts and members of the Yorok Tribe, whose reservation lines the banks of the river, tried many tactics in an attempt to persuade the 40-ton female whale to leave.