In 2025, we revisited two of the former dam sites after the dam removals and were amazed by what we saw. After almost 20 years of a fierce water war between the farmers upstream, the Native People downstream, conservation groups, local representatives, and the utility company operating the dams a consensus was formed to remove the dams. It restored nearly 400 miles of vital habitat for salmon and other species that are essential to the river's ecosystem and the communities that depend on them. This let salmon migrate upstream for the first time in over 100 years and established new guidelines to achieve a compromise between agricultural needs and Native Tribes. Iron Gate Dam was the last removed and by October 2024, the first fall-run Chinook salmon was seen in the Upper Klamath Basin all the way upstream in Oregon.