Klamath Falls, Oregon, Ponderosa Middle School.

克拉马斯瀑布，俄勒冈州，庞德罗萨中学。

Those involved expect it will take decades to restore the Klamath region.

参与其中的人预计，恢复克拉马斯地区需要数十年的时间。

Hundreds of thousands of young salmon are dying in Northern California's Klamath River.

在加州北部的克拉马斯河，成千上万的幼鲑鱼正在死去。

One of the fires has burned close to 100 square miles in the Klamath National Forest.

其中一起火灾已经烧毁了克拉马斯国家森林将近100平方公里的植被。

And right here in California, the Yurok Tribe granted legal personhood to the Klamath River.

就在加利福尼亚这里，尤洛克部落授予克拉马斯河法人资格。

We're at the bottom part of the Klamath river by the mouth on the yurak reservation.

我们在尤拉克保留地克拉马斯河河口的底部。

And he holds the controversial view that natural barriers once kept salmon from ever traveling this far up the Klamath.

他持有一种有争议的观点，即自然屏障曾经阻止鲑鱼沿着克拉马斯河逆流而上。

The lake is actually a reservoir created in 1922 when the Klamath River was damned to build a series of hydroelectric plants.

这个湖实际上是一个建于1922年的水库，当时克拉马斯河被用来建造一系列的水电站。

Beginning 300 kilometers up river, a series of dams were affecting the level and quality of the water in the lower Klamath.

从上游三百公里处开始，一系列的大坝正在影响克拉马斯下游的水位和水质。

That idyllic picture will be disrupted by a plan to draw down the reservoir as part of removing four dams on the Klamath River.

作为拆除克拉马斯河上四座大坝的一部分，一项拆除水库的计划将打破这一田园诗般的图景。

And last month, the largest river restoration project in United States history kicked off on the Klamath River, led by the Yurok people of California.

上个月，美国历史上最大的河流修复项目在克拉马斯河启动，由加州的尤洛克部落人士牵头。

The tragedy I saw here on the Klamath River really gave me a passion to figure out what was going wrong.

我在克拉马斯河上看到的悲剧真的让我有激情去找出哪里出了问题。

On the Klamath River near the Oregon border, California wildlife officials decided not to release more than 1 million young Chinook salmon into the wild.

在俄勒冈州边境附近的克拉马斯河上，加州野生动物官员决定不将100多万只奇努克幼鲑鱼放归野外。

He argues that other causes like overfishing in the ocean and at the mouth of the Klamath may be causing the decline of salmon.

他认为，其他原因，如海洋和克拉马斯河口的过度捕捞，可能是导致鲑鱼数量下降的原因。

Engineers, biologists and seed collectors are already preparing to restore the nearly 900 hectares of land that will be uncovered when Klamath reservoirs are drawn down.

工程师、生物学家和种子收集者已经准备好恢复近900公顷的土地，这些土地将在克拉马斯水库抽水时呈现出来。

More than half of the western US is facing extreme drought conditions, and farmers in Oregon's Klamath Basin talk about illegally using force to open dam gates for irrigation.

美国西部超过一半的地区正面临极端干旱天气，俄勒冈州克拉马斯盆地的农民谈到，他们非法使用武力打开大坝闸门进行灌溉。

In early December, Oregon governor Kate Brown joined with California's governor, and the U.S Secretary of the Interior to celebrate the agreement to remove four dams on the Klamath River.

十二月初，俄勒冈州州长凯特·布朗与加州州长和美国内政部长，一起庆祝拆除克拉马斯河上四座大坝的协议。

Removal of the dams will release an estimated 45 billion gallons of water, leaving dry land and a free-flowing Klamath to restore a healthy habitat for salmon and other species.

大坝的拆除将释放大约450亿加仑的水，这样会留下干燥的土地和自由流动的克拉马斯，以恢复鲑鱼和其他物种的健康栖息地。