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NorCal wildfire causes fish deaths, tribe says

In this photo provided by the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources are dead fish that are found on a 20-mile stretch of the Klamath River in northern California between Indian Creek and Seiad Creek on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, near Happy Camp, Calif. The Karuk Tribe says the McKinney Fire burning in the area killed tens of thousands of fish because of a debris flow that made oxygen levels in the river plummet. (Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources via AP)

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NorCal town left in ashes after McKinney Fire

Sydney Corrales passes a lodge that burned during the McKinney Fire, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Klamath National Forest, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Baby salmon dying by the thousands in NorCal river as …

In this photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, a hatchery truck unloads juvenile Chinook salmon from the Iron Gate Fish Hatchery, Siskiyou County, Calif., into the Fall Creek facility on July 7, 2021. Baby salmon are dying in the thousands in one river and an entire run of endangered salmon could be wiped out in the blistering heat waves and drought in the U.S. Recently California fish and wildlife officials decided not to release more than 1 million hatchery-raised baby chinook salmon into the wild, and instead drove them to several hatcheries that could host them until Klamath River conditions improve. (Travis VanZant/CDFW via AP)

Klamath farmers raise fish to quell water war as drought …

The Gone Fishing complex is home to thousands of endangered sucker fish that will eventually be released back to the Upper Klamath Lake. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Extreme drought upends life in communities at river basin …

Jamie Holt, lead fisheries technician for the Yurok Tribe, maneuvers a boat near a fish trap in the lower Klamath River on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Weitchpec, Calif. A historic drought and low water levels are threatening the existence of fish species along the 257-mile long river. "When I first started this job 23 years ago, extinction was never a part of the conversation," she said of the salmon. "If we have another year like we're seeing now, extinction is what we're talking about." (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Kids rejoiced when school reopened in rural NorCal town. …

Klamath National Forest officials on Sept. 11, 2020, shared this photo from the Slater Fire, which devastated Happy Camp.

Federal regulators hinder Klamath River dam-demolition …

This March 3, 2020, file photo shows the Iron Gate Dam, powerhouse and spillway are on the lower Klamath River near Hornbrook, California. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)

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The Link River Dam, located some 250 river miles up the Klamath River from its mouth, is seen in an undated photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife.

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