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The Klamath River Watershed
The Klamath River, the third largest river on the west coast, was once one of the most productive salm
on rivers in the country with over a million salmon returning to spawn in its waters each year. Now the Klamath River is only a shadow of its former self due to dams, diversions, agriculture, industrial pollution, mining, road building and poor forestry.
The Klamath River is still a vitally important salmon river for Native American tribes and commercial fishermen. Because its human communities are primarily small and rural, the Klamath has a better chance for restoration then any of the West's major salmon-bearing rivers in rapidly urbanizing areas.
As the Klamath River flows from Crater Lake and the wetlands of Oregon’s upper Klamath basin to Northern California’s coastal redwoods, nine major rivers and hundreds of creeks feed into it.
For detailed, interactive maps of the basin, please check out the Klamath Basin Web GIS.
COMING SOON: Find out more about the different places of the Klamath River basin, and how you can help Klamath Riverkeeper to protect this phenomenally diverse system by clicking the map or links below. If you work in the Klamath Basin and have information to add to our website, please let us know.
Upper Klamath Lake and Tributaries (Wood, Williamson, Sycan, and Sprague)
Klamath Wildlife Refuges
Scott and Shasta Rivers
Mid-Klamath and Salmon River
Trinity River
Lost River and Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge