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arrow-up1119arrow-down1external-linkWith Dams Removed, Salmon Will Have the Run of a Western River: The nation’s largest dam removal project is nearly complete after a lengthy campaign by Native tribes to restore the river @CA-OR borderwww.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 month agoYeah. 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.
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.