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.

Ian James

Ian James is a reporter who focuses on water and climate change in California and the West. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2021, he was an environment reporter at the Arizona Republic and the Desert Sun. He previously worked for the Associated Press as a correspondent in the Caribbean and as bureau chief in Venezuela. Follow him on Bluesky @ianjames.bsky.social and on X @ByIanJames.