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The Yurok Tribe offers Redwood Yurok canoe tours on the Klamath River. The canoe, paddles and stools are all hand crafted by tribal members. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Yurok tribe regains their old land

Matthew Rozsa
Chinook Salmon jumping (Getty Images/Supercaliphotolistic)

The billion-dollar salmon vacuum

Tony Schick - ProPublica
The Klamath River flows through Oregon and Northern California. (Getty Images/Elis Cora)

River restoration changes ecosystem

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Wild salmon migrating upstream in the Columbia River, Oregon. (Getty Images/DaveAlan)

Jake Bittle, B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster
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Forest landscape in the vicinity of Labé in March 2008, Guinea-Conakry (François GOUDIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Another dam(n) extinction

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Desoto State park dam (Getty Images)

Below aging dams, a toxic thread

James Dinneen, Alexander Kennedy - Undark
File - In this Saturday, Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, water flows down Oroville Dam's main spillway, near Oroville, Calif. Over six days, operators of the tallest dam in the United States, struggled to figure out their next move after raging floodwaters from California's wettest winter in decades gouged a hole the size of a football field in the dam's main water-release spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

Long rivers blocked by infrastructure

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
Rescue boats fill a flooded street as flood victims are evacuated. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Hazards of Harvey

Neil S. Grigg - The Conversation
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Rescue boats fill a flooded street as flood victims are evacuated. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Harvey’s record rains

Michael Barajas - Grist
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Sarah Gray
(Screenshot, Whooshh Innovations)

Lindsay Abrams
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