The past three years of extreme drought have taken a worsening toll on endangered winter-run salmon. Once the signing was finished, members of the Winnemem Wintu and Pomo tribes danced around a fire.Ĭhinook salmon haven't been able to reach the McCloud River since 1942, when the construction of Shasta Dam blocked the fish from swimming upstream in the Sacramento River and sealed off their spawning areas, leaving the population in decline. She signed the agreements Monday with state and federal fisheries officials at a ceremony next to Shasta Lake, near where the McCloud River flows into the reservoir. "I think it'll take everybody's knowledge to really have them restored," Sisk said. She said state and federal officials "realized that they really have to have us as partners." "It allows us to have a bigger voice in the process of bringing the salmon back." "We're very hopeful," said Caleen Sisk, the tribe's chief and spiritual leader. The agreements that were signed this week for the first time formally recognize the tribe as a partner participating in efforts to save the endangered winter-run Chinook salmon. Members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe have long sought to restore a wild salmon population in the McCloud River north of Redding, where their ancestors once lived.
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