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Native
American group on crusade to dismantle salmon-killing dams
(04-26)
Members from the Yurok,
Karok and Hoopa tribes plan to tow hand-carved redwood canoes to Omaha,
Neb., to a Berkshire Hathaway stockholders' meeting. The company, headed
by billionaire and philanthropist Warren Buffett, owns PacifiCorp, the
firm which holds the four hydropower dams on the
"We hope to meet
with Mr. Buffett and convince him to do the right thing and remove these
dams," said Bob McConnell, a Yurok tribal member and medicine man
who is accompanying the caravan. "We hear he's a reasonable man,
somebody who still lives in the house he was born in. We think he'll
listen to us."
Salmon are integral to
both the food supply and the culture of the Klamath's tribes, which many
archaeologists say have lived along the river for more than 10,000
years.
The fate of the Klamath's
salmon also affects fishermen and seafood lovers as far away as
E-mail Glen Martin at glenmartin@sfchronicle.com.
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