The largest dam removal project in US history is spurring ecosystem actions aimed at restoring the Upper Klamath Basin and thus helping to ameliorate the impacts of choices made a century ago.

A century ago, the Basin, which encompasses 5.6 million acres in Southern Oregon and Northern California, was the ‘Everglades of the West’. But 80% of its wetlands have been lost to livestock grazing and agriculture, compromising the health and resiliency of the entire ecosystem and all its inhabitants.