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After the world’s largest dam removal, what’s next?
On the Klamath River, four dams are coming out in the largest removal project in history. What does that mean for recovery of one of the West’s great salmon and steelhead runs?
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How infrastructure dollars are flowing
Once-in-a-generation infrastructure investments are finally getting on the ground. But it’s not just bridges, roads, airports, electric vehicles and the like. This historic funding has natural infrastructure projects blooming across the country, from man-made beaver dams that store water and act as firebreaks to retrofitted culverts that reopen fragmented ecosystems and mitigate flooding.
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Abandoned mines, the most pervasive water pollution problem in the nation
Some 40 percent of headwater streams in the West are polluted by abandoned mines from a century’s worth of extraction. Those who want to clean them up are hamstrung by liability laws that treats them as if they were the polluters themselves.
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The climate calculus for iconic trout and salmon
For trout, salmon and steelhead, the picture is forbidding: They are coldwater fish in a warming world. Projections show the footprint for native trout species shrinking over the coming century. What can be done to prevent the demise of America’s two dozen native trout species?