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SAN FRANCISCO -- A group of Klamath River Native Americans kicked off a road trip today from San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf to demand removal of several salmon-killing dams on the Klamath River. Members from the the Yurok, Karok and Hoopa tribes plan to tow hand-carved redwood canoes to Omaha, Neb., to a Berkshire Hathaway stockholders' meeting. The company, headed by billionaire and philanthropist Warren Buffett, owns PacifiCorp, the firm which holds the four hydropower dams on the Klamath River blamed for decimating local salmon runs. "We hope to meet with Mr. Buffett and convince him to do the right thin

NASHVILLE - The water level of a Middle Tennessee lake will be dropped nearly 6 feet after federal officials found water leaking into the dam that created the lake. Center Hill Lake, which covers 64 square miles and touches four Middle Tennessee counties, will be dropped 6 feet over the next two weeks, said U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials. Exploratory drilling on Friday found water inside the 58-year-old concrete dam about 50 miles east of Nashville. The dam isn't likely to burst any time soon, according to Corps officials, who are releasing water into Caney Fork River as a...

California hasn't built a major reservoir in decades, and its most important reservoir by far -- the Sierra Nevada snowpack -- is in danger of shrinking because of global warming. Water agencies say those facts, coupled with projected population increases, mean that it is time for the state to get serious about building new dams. "Failure to consider these potential changes and develop the storage to address it will all but guarantee a future that swings from extreme floods to droughts on a regular basis," the Association of California Water Agencies reported in a "blueprint" for statewide water planning in...

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