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Gavin Newsom: “The fish are now swimming freely for the first time in over…”

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Published | Video Starts at 05:59

And it was one of the dams that was about to be removed. And this is the largest dam removal project in US History. As I speak, The fish are now swimming freely for the first time in over 100 years. It shows you how resilient Mother Nature is, how resilient salmon are. And we were able to transfer some of the land that was underwater for decades and decades to tribes that have been there since time immemorial. (05:59–06:04)

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Asserts that fish are swimming freely in the Klamath River for the first time in over 100 years.

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