Can California save its endangered salmon?

Chinook salmon are one of California’s most iconic species, but dams and droughts are pushing the winter-run fish to the brink. Now, a rescue plan is taking shape — and a Native tribe has offered an unusual approach.

April 7, 2022 12:19 AM PT

Claire Hannah Collins is a former video journalist at the Los Angeles Times. She was born in Hong Kong and lived in Amman, Jordan, until she was 18. Before moving to Los Angeles, she studied photo and video journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Can California save its endangered salmon?

Chinook salmon are one of California’s most iconic species, but dams and droughts are pushing the winter-run fish to the brink. Now, a rescue plan is taking shape — and a Native tribe has offered an unusual approach.