Photo Courtesy Save California Salmon.
We’re excited to announce our first round of grants from the Klamath River Fund. With a focus on community healing, tribal self-determination, science and restoration, storytelling, climate resilience, and sustainable agriculture and environmental stewardship, this set of grants is already making an impact in communities in California and Oregon.
California Trout in collaboration with the Klamath Tribes, Karuk Tribe and Yurok Tribe
Award: $330,000 for a combination multibeam imaging SONAR and radio telemetry fish monitoring project in the Klamath River. The project will help researchers evaluate the repopulation of culturally significant species in the Klamath basin post dam removal.
Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District Fish Fair
Award: $13,000 to support the 20th annual Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District Fish Fair held at Hoopa Valley Elementary School. Serving and educating students and community from Humboldt, Trinity, Siskiyou and Del Norte Counties on local fisheries, fire, native plants, soils health, wildlife programs, water cycles, climate resilience and celebrating the dam removal projects.
Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District
Award: $17,000 to support the creation of a short promotional film documenting the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s historic land acquisition of a culturally significant area within the Hupa people’s ancestral territory. In 2024, the Tribe acquired the 10,435-acre Pine Creek Tract along the western edge of the Hoopa Valley Tribe Reservation in the Klamath Basin.
Save California Salmon – 21st Annual Salmon Run Sponsorship
Award: $5,000 to help fund food, gas, and t-shirts for the Salmon Run while in Yurok, Hupa and Karuk territories. The event is a basin wide run starting at the mouth of the Klamath and goes over 250 miles up the Klamath River to the Wood River above Klamath Lake, and up the Trinity River at least to the confluence with the South Fork. Currently Tribes, schools, families, and sports teams from Yurok, Hupa, Karuk, Shasta, Modoc, and Klamath Tribal territories in Del Norte, Humboldt, Siskiyou and Klamath Counties engage in the run. Last year at least 900 people, mainly youth, ran.
Ridges to Riffles – Klamath Gathering of Salmon People Sponsorship
Award: $3,000 to support a gathering hosted by Ridges to Riffles, to learn together lessons from dam removal efforts of the Klamath and Elwha and how they will guide us to heal and continue efforts working together to return the salmon to the Snake River and restore our healthy habitats and community wellness.