Fun For the Entire Household at This Weekend’s Klamath Festival! (However No Salmon, Once more) | Misplaced Coast Outpost

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Press launch from the Yurok Tribe:

Yurok
Tribe Hosts 61st Klamath Salmon Festival — Saturday, August
16

This
Year’s Theme: Celebrating the Spectacular Start of the Klamath
River’s Renewal!

All
are invited to the Yurok Tribe’s 61st Annual Klamath Salmon
Festival on Saturday, August 16 in Klamath.

The
free, family-friendly occasion contains a parade, Ney-puey Fun Run, stay
music by Blue Mountain Tribe, a number of youngsters’ actions,
basket-weaving demonstrations, 20 scrumptious meals choices, Stick Game,
basketball and arm-wrestling tournaments and high-quality reward objects
made by greater than 130 native distributors.

“This
yr, now we have each cause to be grateful — the Klamath River seems
higher than every other time in dwelling reminiscence, a robust testomony to
dam removing and restoration. We invite the neighborhood to affix us in
celebrating the river’s renewal,” mentioned Joseph L. James, the
Chairman of the Yurok Tribe. “It fills my coronary heart to see the Klamath
therapeutic with every passing day.”

The
theme of this yr’s occasion is “Celebrating the Spectacular
Start of the Klamath River’s Renewal!” The Klamath is therapeutic
even sooner than anticipated in response to the removing of the final of
4 dams in August of 2024. A month after deconstruction crews
dismantled the final dam, 1000’s of salmon began repopulating the
newly free-flowing a part of the river.

A
actually particular band is headlining the competition this yr. Blue
Mountain Tribe, an all-Native blues band, is acknowledged for his or her
authentic songs that replicate the Indigenous expertise within the United
States. The quartet has been awarded and chosen for greater than a
dozen movie festivals for his or her music video for “Sacred Flowers.”

The
Yurok Fisheries Department shall be screening three movies through the
competition. The screenings will showcase a section of documentary
filmmaker Shane Anderson’s upcoming function movie, “Undamming
Klamath”, artist Lucy Raven’s “Murderers Bar”, and Our
Changing Planet’s episode titled “River Restoration.” Showtimes
are 11 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Anderson and Raven shall be in attendance
too.

Last
yr’s arm wrestling match was an enormous hit so the Tribe determined
to placed on an even bigger and higher model of it this yr. The 2025
match will embody Men’s, Women’s, Master’s and Youth
Divisions. Sign ups and weigh-ins are from 9am to 11am with the primary
pull occurring at midday. The Ney-puey Fun Run begins at 9am. The
annual parade is at 10am. Blue Mountain Tribe is enjoying at 12pm and
1:30pm.

The
2025 fish forecast is nicely beneath common and never practically massive sufficient
for a business fishery. For this cause, there shall be no salmon at
the Salmon Festival. Through dam removing and restoration, the Yurok
Tribe is assured that the Klamath’s salmon runs will get better.
Right now, there’s extra optimistic momentum on the Klamath than ever
earlier than. Large-scale river restoration initiatives are occurring
all through the basin.

This
yr’s competition obtained beneficiant assist from Yurok
Telecommunications Corporation, Per-geesh Construction, Yurok
Economic Development Corporation, Green Diamond Resource Company and
LACO and Associates. The Salmon Festival parking space and shuttles
are positioned off Klamath Mill Road. Please don’t park on Highway 101.

*Reminder: For everybody’s consolation and security, pets usually are not
permitted on the Salmon Festival.