Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar

For the first time since 1962, the Klamath River is flowing free. Until last year, four megalithic dams in southern Oregon and northern California impeded the natural path of the nearly 257-mile river from its headwaters to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean. Over decades, these hydroelectric dams disastrously affected humans and wildlife by turning the water into a hotbed of toxicity and bacteria, culminating in the near extinction of Chinook salmon. Decades-long undamming efforts were led by local Yurok and Karuk tribes, and between 2022 and 2024 the concrete monoliths were finally dismantled in the largest- ever project of its kind. Tucson-born artist Lucy Raven filmed some of the demolition, bearing witness to a landscape on the brink of transformation...