The nation’s largest dam removal project is nearly complete after a lengthy campaign by Native tribes to restore the river at the California-Oregon border.
There were a couple decades of thinking it through first. There’s a real history of all sorts of fish ladders and stuff not working adequately.
We can’t get back exactly what we had — temperatures are higher now, and that affects evaporation and salmon, but this seems like the right decision in this location.
There were a couple decades of thinking it through first. There’s a real history of all sorts of fish ladders and stuff not working adequately.
We can’t get back exactly what we had — temperatures are higher now, and that affects evaporation and salmon, but this seems like the right decision in this location.
Yeah. I’m just worried about the effects on surrounding vegetation and if increased dryness would make more fires, and allow them to spread further.
I don’t think this spot is really that far away from where we’ve deployed beavers for that. And salmon can jump a beaver dam.
Seems like the best option to mitigate downside of dam removal.
We all know what that means.