AS SALMON RETURNED TO the Klamath River from the Pacific Ocean in 2002 to lay eggs, they found it choked and trickling. Water they needed had been held behind upstream dams and diverted for agriculture. Fish crowded the overheated shallows, succumbed to disease, and lined the banks with their lifeless bodies. As many as 70,000 salmon perished before they could spawn that year, the largest fish kill the region had ever seen.
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