Below Keswick Dam on California's Sacramento River, salmon face a problem the dam itself created. Winter run Chinook salmon, now listed as endangered, once spawned across hundreds of miles of cold mountain streams before Shasta and Keswick Dams cut off access to that historic habitat entirely.

California has transported over 200,000 tons of gravel to restore critical spawning habitat for the endangered winter-run Chinook salmon. This effort aims to counteract the…

Below Keswick Dam on California's Sacramento River, salmon face a problem the dam itself created. Winter run Chinook salmon, now listed as endangered, once spawned across hundreds…