After years of protests, court battles and even picketing, Klamath tribes are able to return to a restored river.

For the first time in more than a century, salmon are swimming freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries near the California-Oregon line.

Over 16 months, four dams built between 1903 and 1962 came down as part of a monumental effort to clear 35 river miles in Oregon and California.

For the first time in more than a century, salmon are swimming freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — just days after the largest dam removal project in U.