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Tribes celebrate end of largest dam removal project in US history

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The largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed Wednesday .

Local tribes fought for decades to free hundreds of miles of the Klamath River near the California - Oregon border.

The dams cut salmon off from their historic habitat and caused them to die in alarming numbers because of bad water-quality conditions.

The Klamath River's headwaters lie on the tribe's homelands in Oregon .

Members once depended on salmon for 25% of their food.

For more than a century their waters have not held any salmon, Jeff Mitchell says.

"His vision became reality and I think he never doubted it," says one member of the tribe.

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