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Historic deal revives plan for largest US dam demolition

by Gillian Flaccus
| November 19, 2020 12:09 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An agreement announced Tuesday paves the way for the largest dam demolition in U.S. history, a project that promises to reopen hundreds of miles of waterway along the Oregon-California border to salmon that are critical to tribes but have dwindled to almost nothing in recent years.

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