Returning Salmon to the Headwaters of the Yuba River
The Yuba River hosts one of California's surviving wild salmon fisheries. Salmon once returned upriver into the Sierra Mountains to spawn. Today, the salmon population is restricted to the Lower Yuba River, below Englebright Dam. Recently, a coalition of state, environmental and commercial interests has been studying whether they can bring back a salmon run above the dam. Among those who want to restore the salmon are the indigenous Maidu people.
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