By Rachel Becker Arron Troy Hockaday leaned over the highway railing to peer into the water below, where the Scott River empties into the Klamath near the Oregon border. Beneath the bridge, dozens of threatened coho salmon rested on their journey back from the Pacific. It was the end of October, and they were waiting […]
This
year, 290 wild spring Chinook salmon made the 85-mile trek up the
Klamath to find cool mountain waters for spawning. While this is
still far below average, it is more positive than last year's dismal
count of 90 fish. Celebrations were short-lived, however. Soon after
the numbers were fi
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Wildfires in the west hitting tribes hard The size and number of the wildfires threaten to exhaust firefighting resources
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A scoop plane drops water onto a burning ridge in Washington state where a fire line had been created by crews of wildland firefighters, Monday, July 12, 2021 at the Lick Creek Fire, south of Asotin, Wash. (Pete Caster/Lewiston Tribune via AP) The size and number of the wildfires threaten to exhaust firefighting resources
Joaqlin Estus
In Oregon, Karuk tribal citizen Troy Hockaday Sr. watched helplessly last fall as a raging wildfire leveled the homes of five of his family members, swallowed acres of forest where his people hunt deer, elk and black bear, and killed a longtime friend.
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