In 2016, conservationists put the bends back into a Lake District river straightened 200 years earlier; within months, Atlantic salmon were spawning there for the first time in centuries
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September 4, 2026
Centuries after people forced a Cumbrian river into a straight, artificial channel, nature has reclaimed its original course in the Lake District, bringing endangered wild fish back to historic spawning grounds almost immediately. In the summer of 2016,…