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Article: How it was on the upper Sacramento. (Sacramento River)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- April 1, 1992
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Some portions of the river are being restored. You can get a firsthand look
EXPLORERS WHO ventured into the upper Sacramento Valley in the first half of the last century found a river much different in appearance from the farm-threading waterway of today. Spawning salmon and steelhead trout thronged the Sacramento River in every season, and its banks sustained mile upon mile of forest so dense and impenetrable that valley residents still refer to its remnants as "jungle."
Since then, dams and diversions have dramatically reduced the numbers of salmon and steelhead coming up the river to spawn from spring through fall, and pushed the winter-run salmon to ...