An indigenous Yurok family from California brought a dying river back to life after leading a decades-long fight to remove four dams

• Yurok attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis and the Klamath River, where her family helped lead a historic river restoration effort.
• More than a century after four dams cut off the Klamath River's natural flow, salmon are finally swimming freely upstream again.
• The historic comeback follows the completion of the world's largest dam removal project in October 2024, ending decades of ecological damage that devastated fish populations and disrupted the lives of the Yurok people in northern California.