The LA Times reports
California’s Chinook salmon haven’t been able to reach the McCloud River since 1942, when the construction of Shasta Dam blocked the fish from swimming upstream and sealed off their spawning areas in the cold mountain waters near Mt. Shasta.
After 80 years, endangered winter-run Chinook are about to swim in the river once again.
Read more at Endangered salmon relocated to ancestral waters – Los Angeles Times
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