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Winding Back the Clock: New Plan Would Remove Dams on the Klamath River

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Given all the fighting we're seeing this election season, it's kind of amazing that many groups came together to find a compromise this spring and signed a plan that would demolish four aging hydroelectric dams along the Klamath River, near the California-Oregon border. Hundreds of miles of the Klamath would run free to the Pacific Ocean, opening up the largest river restoration in U.S. history. The plan took over a decade to negotiate, and it's now before federal regulators.

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