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A preserved Chinook salmon specimen lying on a light surface

Klamath River, near the former Iron Gate Dam

Chinook salmon returned to 88% of their old Klamath habitat after the dams came down

After four Klamath River dams were removed in 2024, sonar counts recorded 7,742 Chinook passing the former dam sites that fall and more than 13,000 in 2025. The fish spread through 214 miles blocked for about a century.

Verified · Mongabay

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An olive ridley sea turtle resting on sand

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Huntington Beach & Seal Beach, California

Biologists moved 204 olive ridley eggs off Orange County beaches

The first known natural sea turtle nests on the U.S. West Coast were shifted to the Aquarium of the Pacific before storm surf could wash them out.

Verified · Los Angeles Times

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