Want to learn more about the Klamath but without reading? There are a growing number of great podcasts that have covered issues like water quality, fisheries recovery, and restoration in the Klamath Basin. 

Listen at the links below or on your favorite podcast app.

The Evergreen

Oregon Public Broadcasting's weekly podcast The Evergreen has a few episodes on the Klamath River

• The Largest Dam Removal Project in the US (March 11, 2024)
• What Klamath Dam Removal Means to Tribes (March 18, 2024)

What it Takes to Take Down a Dam

A podcast about the context, science, and engineering of the Klamath Dam Removals. This podcast series was produced by Desiree Tullos and Miranda Bour with Oregon State University as part of the project Water Quality, Ecology, and Equitable Decisions in the Klamath. (August, 2023)

• Episode 1: Why did we do this??

• Episode 2: I’m not doing this for myself. I’m doing this for my kids (with Barry McCovey of the Yurok Tribe)

• Episode 3: The healing process has begun (with Mark Bransom of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation)

• Episode 4: Getting to the dam removal decision (with Bob Gravely of PacifiCorp)

• Episode 5: How Gwen sleeps at night: communication, expertise, and partnering in the project of a career (with Gwen Santos of Resource Environmental Solutions)

• Episode 6: The fish will figure it out (with Tommy Williams of NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center) 

• Episode 7: Lessons in adaptive environmental permitting (with Chris Stine of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality) 

• Episode 8: There will be mud! Sediment and water quality in the Klamath River following dam removal (with Chauncey Anderson of the US Geological Survey- retired)

• Episode 9: A lot to celebrate: Whitewater guides talk Klamath dams and dam removals (with three guides from Indigo Creek Outfitters)

• Episode 10: It feels like we have no control (with Francis Gill and Danny Fontaine - Copco Lake landowners)

   

Fish Water People

California Trout's Fish Water People podcast series talks to the individuals involved in science, policy, restoration, and community engagement, with the occasional fish story. Klamath-relevant podcasts below:

• Breaking Barriers: Inside the Klamath Dam Removal Project, with Mark Bransom (April 16th, 2024)
• Win-Wins for Rivers and Ranches, with Mike Belchik, Damon Goodman, and Gareth Plank (March 15th, 2024) 
• Undamming the Klamath, with Amy Cordalis and Mark Bransom (August 10, 2023)

Podcasts about Dam Removal

• A Watershed Moment (Undammed: The Klamath River Story by American Rivers on September 9, 2024)
• That Dam Removal Project (Unfold, a podcast by UC Davis on July 15, 2024)
• Restoring the Klamath River and a Way of Life (The Excerpt Podcast on February 22, 2024)
• Restoring the Klamath River Basin: The Largest Dam Removal Project in the World (NOAA Fisheries Podcast on August 4, 2023)
• Klamath Dam Removal with Ann Willis- American Rivers, Snake River, Salmon (Wet Fly Swing Podcast on September 11, 2023)
• Lessons from the Klamath Dams (The River Rambler Podcast on January 24, 2023)

Other Related Podcasts

• The Klamath River Water Crisis and its Lessons on Climate Change (WBUR Podcast on September 2, 2021)
• Living Downstream: The Klamath Water Wars (Northern California Public Media Podcast recorded in 2018)
• Water Talk: A podcast series for the water curious (Water Talk Podcast - Four seasons available)