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CALIFORNIA PLEDGES TO BUILD CHANNEL FOR THREATENED FISH TO BYPASS GOLD RUSH-ERA DAM
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California officials on Tuesday said they will spend about $60 million to build a channel along the Yuba River so that salmon and other threatened fish species can get around a Gold Rush-era dam that for more than a century has cut off their migration along the chilly waters of Sierra Nevada streams.