Fellow Story
Quinones quoted on Klamath River salmon problems, climate change
The Klamath’s problems will get worse with climate change and increasing river temperatures, says Rebecca Quiñones, a U.C. Davis researcher who has extensively studied the Klamath ecosystem. “All the climate models show that the main stem of the [Klamath] river is going to be really Some conservationists say hatchery production is making Chinook salmon more vulnerable to warming trends. inhospitable to salmon,” Quiñones says.