Several dozen Indigenous youth completed a 310-mile, month-long source-to-sea “first descent” of the undammed Klamath River on Friday. As the youths, between the ages 13 to 20, approached the sand ...

Anna Lueck for OPB / OPB A group of young Indigenous kayakers is headed to the mouth of the Klamath River in free-flowing water after portaging around two dams and paddling through four former dam ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teenagers and young adults from Klamath Basin tribes in south-central Oregon and Northern California earned international applause ...

REQUA, Calif. — Queen Gensaw skylarked around and between her parents, Oscar and Georgianna, at the Yurok Tribe's boat ramp at Requa, or Rek-woi, the “mouth of the creek” where the Klamath River meets ...

KLAMATH — As bright-colored kayaks push through a thick wall of fog, voices and the beats of drums build as kayakers approach a crowd that has formed on the beach. Applause erupts as the boats land on ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Connected Coastlines reporting initiative. MOUTH OF THE KLAMATH RIVER, California — Sheldon SmilingCoyote locked his eyes on the push and pull of the ...

The Rios to River expedition of around 30 youth kayakers began their journey down the undammed Klamath River last week to begin their monthlong journey, becoming the first kayakers to make the trip in ...

On a special episode (first released on December 4, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: This year marked the end of a 20-year struggle to remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River that runs ...

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 dam ...

Teenagers and young adults from Klamath Basin tribes in south-central Oregon and Northern California earned international applause this summer paddling neon-colored kayaks 310 miles on the newly ...

Sheldon SmilingCoyote locked his eyes on the push and pull of the waves in front of him, suddenly slashing the tip of his handheld hook through the water, pulling out a slimy prehistoric fish.