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Virtual Guidebook to Mount Shasta and the Klamath Mountains
Iron Gate Dam on the Klamath River
Siskiyou County, California

This stretch of the Klamath River, around behind Mount Shasta, is little known except to the locals. It is, however, the focus of major controversy - over whether to remove three power generation dams to help restore the salmon and steelhead runs on the river.

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Ash Creek Bridge over the Klamath River, west of I-5

(June 9, 2006)

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Eagle Creek Ranch, on Bogus Creek south of Iron Gate

(June 9, 2006)

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Iron Gate Dam and fish hatchery

(June 9, 2006)

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Iron Gate Reservoir

(June 10, 2006)

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Boat ramp on Copco Reservoir

(June 9, 2006)

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Copco Reservoir on the upper Klamath River

(June 9, 2006)

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The Klamath River at Fishing Access #5

(June 9, 2006)

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Ranch access bridge over the upper Klamath River

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