Reviving the threatened salmon run

Newsom (at podium) speaking to reporters as fishway renderings are displayed on either side of him at the Lower Yuba River and the Daguerre Point Dam in Marysville. Officials plan to build a channel along the river so that salmon and other threatened fish species can get around the Gold Rush-era Daguerre Point Dam that for over a century has cut off their migration. — AP

CALIFORNIA officials are spending about US$60mil (RM277mil) to build a channel along the Yuba River so that salmon and other threatened fish species can get around a Gold Rush-era dam that for more than a century has cut off their migration along the chilly waters of Sierra Nevada streams.

The project is the latest example of state and federal officials trying to reverse the environmental harms caused by the century-old infrastructure along California’s major rivers and streams.