Category: Featured Mission
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Documenting a Historic Return to a Free-Flowing Klamath River
LightHawk is helping document a historic moment for free-flowing rivers and salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest. For more than a century, four dams along the Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California degraded water quality and blocked salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey from reaching more than 400 miles of spawning and rearing habitat.…
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Taking Flight for Colorado’s Historic Wolf Reintroduction
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Operation Abalone: Nearly 5,000 Take Flight
Nearly 5,000 endangered white abalone take flight on an important step toward returning to the wild. Raised by Bodega Marine Lab and NOAA partners, the abalone were transported by LightHawk volunteer pilot John Baker to Southern California, where The Bay Foundation will prepare them for release into coastal kelp forests. Credit: John Baker/LightHawk. Once abundant…