Why we blew up four dams — and saved a river | Amy Bowers Cordalis

Opublikowano: 2026-09-23

For thousands of years, the Klamath River in Northern California was home to one of the continent’s great salmon runs, creating abundance for the native Yurok Tribe … until a series of dams and a century of extraction nearly destroyed it. Indigenous advocate Amy Bowers Cordalis helped lead the fight to take down those dams — the largest removal of its kind in US history. She offers a roadmap for communities everywhere working to protect and restore the places they call home. (Following her talk, Cordalis joins Elise Hu to talk about her journey becoming a lawyer to fig...