I get really tired hearing about the cost to people, the homeowners, the tourists. You know what's good for people? Functional and stable ecosystems. The short term costs are nothing compared to the long term cost of global ecosystem collapse. Clean water and food are far more valuable than water front real estate and rafting.

@maybeebuzzy2265

10 ай бұрын

❤

@billlynn8256

9 ай бұрын

Bravo!

@oakmaiden2133

9 ай бұрын

Waterfront real estate is criminal imo. We have 2 coastlines crammed with private property. Hurricanes wipe them out, tax payers have to clean it up. Beaches should be public access.

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

And Jay just where do you live that you wouldn't complain if I destroyed your way of life?? In the city?? How about I stopped allowing you import your food while exporting your waste so you can live and say silly things online??

@jamesratzman8945

9 ай бұрын

Elwha River basin is seeing incredible results. After these last 6 years. The way it once was . Salmon are thriving. Ecosystem flourishing. Hydro generated energy was @ 45 /50 % of what it was designed for originally. 👋✋🙏

The Klamath River restoration will never be complete without also restoring streams and beaver habitat. The beavers will store water that will replenish groundwater supplies, create ideal habitat for birds, fish, and other animals, and will provide water to the river in the summer months. The removal of dams without that stream restoration will fail to improve water quality or to decrease water temperatures and algae blooms in the summertime because there will not be enough freshwater flow. The beavers are a keystone species. The rivers need them to survive.

@gabrielford3473

9 ай бұрын

So true! And that doesn't even get into the effect they have in suppressing wildfires! Cheers to these fantastic critters!!!

@TheCriminalViolin

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely, and in tandem with permaculture, it is the most powerful and best way to restore habitats and ecosystems fully.

@ResortDog

9 ай бұрын

Beaver dams only ever existed up side streams as the yearly floods sluice everything down the gorge.

@GO-xs8pj

9 ай бұрын

They must bring beavers back to slow the river and store water. They create the habitat for the salmon fry to grow and thrive.

@michiganmuckraker

9 ай бұрын

So beaver dams are ok but not human dams?

The Salinas river in Central California got rerouted by the Army Core of Engineers, and when you drive that long section of (Highway 101) through all the agricultural fields you can see the old berm where this mighty river used to flow. It apparently used to be very “snakelike” the way it flowed for thousands of years. When big storms hit the valley, the old part of where the river used to be sometimes fills up from groundwater. It wants to flow the way its always intended to do. Native steelhead trout used to populate it as well but now are just a small run of fish. Its always a beautiful thing watching these documentaries and seeing hopeful change for the future of ecosystems and Earth’s rivers. Bless up yall! Its no better time than now to let nature recover and do its thing!!

@alibarron7558

6 ай бұрын

About 25% of our food comes from the Salinas & Sacramento Rivers, so you want to take the blame for families starving?

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

What about the ecological disaster this stupidity caused?

@pia31415

13 күн бұрын

@alibarron7558 humans can always find another source of food, most animals in an ecosystems cannot

God bless ❤️❤️💪💪 keep up the good work restoring the nature.

But whatever will the poor endangered real estate agents ever do? My heart goes out to them. Who cares about a river that has a long history of feeding people with a natural, renewable, and openly accessible source of food. Where's the value in that? How one could ever value that over a general store is mind boggling. I mean, it's yet another way our poor real estate agent could potentially milk you for everything you've got, while stating "it's all about the community". And who'll deny the value of the community general store over one of the most astonishing gifts the planet could offer....free, renewable food. I mean, where's the money in that? Am I right, real estate guy?

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

You are so right.. Like in your city.. I think we should take away the water that flowes into your house and the store that supplies it... Then you MIGHT know the uncertainty destroying entire civilizations has grown to rely on feel like.. I find it funny the native americans are complaining about fish when they get paid THOUSANDS of dollars in stipends from that loss..

@marumiyuhime

Ай бұрын

id love to buy one of them houses id live there in a second

I won't live long enough to see the river restored, but my faith in nature will be the power to revive what was lost, welcome home.

@kenmartin861

4 ай бұрын

We won't be here to enjoy. We are being removed to built the elites version of heaven on earth.

@dcaloha2431

Ай бұрын

Probably true… removing the damn created an ecological disaster that may take lifetimes to resolve

I have always wanted to see what the natural state of the Columbia river would be be without the dams in it too. And even the heavily modified flows and falls of the Willamette.The more dams are removed from our rivers and streams, the better. So many people, especially ranchers, don't believe you can preserve and guarantee water throughout the year without having a dam to fill a basin, however they're wrong about that. Premaculture, and ironically, bringing back and protecting beavers and their habitats (and that means letting them create dams, floodplains and wetlands) is proven almost everywhere on earth to do that job and do it far better than any human interventions and dams ever have. Got to live WITH nature and the land, not off of it.

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

I think you forgot (as everyone in this video) that the climate is now very different.. Drier and hotter summers will practically dry up the rivers and the warmer water temperatures will cause massive fish die offs because many fish cannot survive in warmer waters that are now very prevalent.

@TheCriminalViolin

9 ай бұрын

@@tomwillis9051 Except none of that has even happened beyond a very rare occasion in very specific places. Climate change is entirely normal, as is this current climate change event we're experiencing. Moreover, I don't see how what you've said has anything to do with what I did. It does even work as a counter. And looking at many places in the deserts, its abundantly clear how permaculture using native plants and mimicking beavers has restored forests and grasslands to desertified regions. The Saheel is a great case study showing this, specifically in Niger. Another is in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, which has a creek basin that a small coop has managed to restore back into a proper very green and healthy ecosystem despite the climate and weather being far drier and hotter. They again used permaculture of native plants, as well as reintroduced beavers which rapidly aided them in restoration. And when you do this, even in deserts, the water table, aquifers and thus groundwater all gets replenished again, and sticks around all year, no matter the weather. It turns entire basins people have thought were normally seasonal into year-round streams. So if you're of the mind that it cannot work because "the climate has changed into too dry and hot for it to work", you're actually mistaken.

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

@@TheCriminalViolin #1 Fish die offs due to temperature have been occuring in several rivers over the last decade. Including the Columbia and the Klamath. They are being identified and mitigated by the dams working with USFW to release large volumes of water to keep the river cool during these hot months.. It is well known but not well reported. secondly.. What I said and stand by is that this river is in a drought. It is very possible it will significantly decrease to a point fish will not be viable. Several instances in Northern California rivers doing this.. Large rivers turning to just a stream. And your glorious plan to tear out concrete dams to replace them with ones made by beavers is seemingly pointless.. If beaver dams solved the Wests drought problems (drought meaning lack of rainfall) then by definition Most of the west would not be labeled as a desert.. Lastly, while I think you truly believe your hypothesis. I am sure beavers help just as me taking a pee against a tree helps also but beavers and everything do NOT make it rain more, do not stop over population, do not stop over fishing, do not answer who is suppose to give while others take.. Two things in logical people's eye cause this #1 human species overpopulation, #2 Human technological advances.. Until you have less people living this will only get worse. Americans are spoiled with big vehicles, big houses, and consuming more than their environment can provide.. But until you stop the chinese fishing fleet from sitting 200 miles off shore with 50 mile long nets in international waters.. Tearing out dams isn't going to do a dam thing to improve salmon populations. It's only a feel good thing for ignorant fools..

@ResortDog

9 ай бұрын

less dams less food

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

@@ResortDog Nahh to people like these. Food comes from the Grocery store.. They say the could grow it or hunt / gather it but they don't really have time to ..

Perfect opportunity and place to reintroduce beavers! I hope the CA and OR Natural Resources departments have given that option some thought. Those critters would do wonders for restoring proper (natural) water retention and vegetation to the areas that were former reservoirs.

@billyb9067

10 ай бұрын

The best solution for our times and the future, beavers 🦫🦫

@powderbeast5598

10 ай бұрын

Yup , "Beaver 🦫 Believer". ✨👍✨.

@gregorymillar285

9 ай бұрын

About time they're doing something for the salmon. Stupid people worrying about how to make a dollar

@peggyjones3282

8 ай бұрын

I love beavers. ❤ That is absolutely what's needed.

@kbanghart

8 ай бұрын

​@@gregorymillar285making a dollar is fine, but we have too many people trying to make as many dollars as they can at the expense of others.

I hope to see many more rivers freed up in my lifetime.

@maybeebuzzy2265

10 ай бұрын

❤

@dcpack

9 ай бұрын

Yes, and world peace, blah, blah....

@GOD719

9 ай бұрын

That means less lakes and power. Although. I do want salmon to explode in population

@oozlefinch7109

9 ай бұрын

Back to the stone age. Good job.

@CANNABISfreedomNOtaxes

9 ай бұрын

​@@oozlefinch7109yeah the same people crying for the removal of Dams also want open borders. They are ignorant to the fact that the population needs stored water to survive.

Thank God they are removing the Dams! Dams kill off the whole ecological system! So proud of the Yurok people! Thank you for not giving up. I know it was a hello of a fight, and if the 100-year contract didn't expire, you guys would still be fighting in court. Love Klamath and the Klamath River. That's where I fee myl peace and serenity. Especially on a boat, up-river. The river means more than our recreational desires.

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

I think human population growth is what is "killing" off the ecological system.. Maybe we should get rid of a large portion of the population that produce nothing and care for nothing.. Like people who live in the city who have destroyed their ecological system and now want to tell others how it should be done.

@Agnemons

9 ай бұрын

BOLLOCKS!! Dams do not "Kill off the whole ecological system". Dams DO alter an ecosystem. Is that good or bad? That depends on your point of view. Nature is quite capable of forming it's own dams through completely natural events. From your perspective that would make nature bad. This is ridiculous. What is natural is change and adaptions to change. Nature doesn't care if a species goes extinct. Another species will just move in or adapt to the niche. 99% of all species that have ever existed on earth are extinct and humanity had no influence on that, humanity did not exist when these events took place. Man made interventions in nature are, from natures point of view, perfectly acceptable. They are just a bigger beaver dam. Just think how many creatures are displaced just so a beaver can build it's dam.

@tomwillis9051

6 ай бұрын

No Grandma.. What has and is killing off the ecological system is Human over population.. Everyone is taking 10 times more from this planet than the planet can support.. INcluding YOU !! I don't see you destroying your home, way of life, and careers to fix it.. But you want others to do that under some delusion it's going to fix anything..

Yes , thanks to the Native Americans. 4th largest Anadromous fish producer on West Coast North America, "traditional" .

The klamath once had not only coho and chinook and green and white sturgeon and small scale suckers but dog salmon also and eulechon AKA candle fish runs. In my time candle fish runs were so big we could fill a truck bed full for the smoke house. Now not one candlefish that I know of . Until the candle fish and dog salmon are brought back the river will never be whole.

@jesse75

6 ай бұрын

I never heard that the river had any Chums in it ?

@billsmith5109

Ай бұрын

Not much discussion of restoration of normal gravel movement. Even undersized culverts can have a big effect. Dams just stop it. Gravel continues to move downstream, and isn’t replaced. It’s something that doesn’t matter over one year. Over decades it’s a big deal. And chum are all about spawning gravel, and a decent estuary. If neighboring stream has adequate number of chum, restarting the runs using remote site incubators is low tech, and doesn’t need professional operation*. I’ve done it, under approval and direction of WDFW. A spring, up out over the flood plain is the key. *Producing fertilized eggs, ensuring no disease, and raising them to ‘eyed up’ are professional operations. My comments just limited to RSI operation.

@billsmith5109

Ай бұрын

Not much discussion of restoration of normal gravel movement. Even undersized culverts can have a big effect. Dams just stop it. Gravel continues to move downstream, and isn’t replaced. It’s something that doesn’t matter over one year. Over decades it’s a big deal. And chum are all about spawning gravel, and a decent estuary. If neighboring stream has adequate number of chum, restarting the runs using remote site incubators is low tech, and doesn’t need professional operation*. I’ve done it, under approval and direction of WDFW. A spring, up out over the flood plain is the key. *Producing fertilized eggs, ensuring no disease, and raising them to ‘eyed up’ are professional operations. My comments just limited to RSI operation.

@billsmith5109

Ай бұрын

Not much discussion of restoration of normal gravel movement. Even undersized culverts can have a big effect. Dams just stop it. Gravel continues to move downstream, and isn’t replaced. It’s something that doesn’t matter over one year. Over decades it’s a big deal. And chum are all about spawning gravel, and a decent estuary. If neighboring stream has adequate number of chum, restarting the runs using remote site incubators is low tech, and doesn’t need professional operation*. I’ve done it, under approval and direction of WDFW. A spring, up out over the flood plain is the key. *Producing fertilized eggs, ensuring no disease, and raising them to ‘eyed up’ are professional operations. My comments just limited to RSI operation.

This is so dam cool

My heart is dancing with joy that the River will be free - I am Shasta amd the copto dam sits on sacred sites

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Is your heart still dancing now that it's caused an ecological disaster?

Thank you Troy, For your persistence and bringing nature back into balance and harmony. 🙏 Everyone suffers when we don't take care of mother earth. Not everything should be about making a buck.

@gabrielford3473

9 ай бұрын

Cheers to you!!

@psychosneighbor1509

9 ай бұрын

He drove to the river in a gasoline-powered vehicle, dressed in all the finest Chinese-made clothes Walmart has to offer while his ascites tell a story of at least 2-gallons of whiskey per week(or McDonald's on the reg). How come none of these "traditionalists" ever show up on a horse, all-ripped and dressed in buckskin? Guarantee there's an EBT card in his wallet...

@RianGarn

5 ай бұрын

@@psychosneighbor1509 I love how racist scumbags always shows their true nature.

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

The only thing that was brought back was a severe ecological disaster.

I think the dam removal is great, natural rivers is what we should strive for.

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Why? What's so good about ecological disasters?

@marumiyuhime

Ай бұрын

@@Sujad dams are disasters

Excellent!

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Why? What's so good about ecological disasters?

The same thing needs to happen on the Deschutes river.

@whskymilkshake

10 ай бұрын

and the Columbia

@powderbeast5598

10 ай бұрын

Wouldn't that be a sight , to see Chinook salmon spawning in Metolius river. But how could you grow alfalfa in the desert ? ...

@DovetailSales

9 ай бұрын

And the Kennebec in Maine.

@westerntruckandtractorrepa1353

9 ай бұрын

Yes, let's destroy our infrastructure so no one can afford their power bill anymore. Great idea.

@rustyholt6619

9 ай бұрын

it needs to happen on all rivers ,, the elwah proves it,

Great news!

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Why? What's so good about ecological disasters?

Very interested to watch the transformation = reformation into a productive salmon habitat🥰 Go fishies and other wildlife that will welcome the habitat!

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Why? What's so good about ecological disasters?

I hope we will see more dam removals in the future.

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Why? What's so good about ecological disasters?

@ryanwalker3453

5 ай бұрын

All rivers are different, and some dams themselves create ecological disasters.

Now we need to restore Tulare lake and Owens lake!

I understand the rafters' plight. But recreation is not necessarily a function that the ecology of the river depends on. It's human activity that has been adapted to human intervention. Before the dams, were there white water rafting trips and guides? Maybe not, or at least they were smaller groups in canoe or kayak? But the underlying point is that we can return many modified systems back to their pre-European colonization status. Redwood forests that took a few hundred to a few thousand years to grow, can return but none of us will see it. Forests that are few and far between can reemerge. Over the mountains to the plains to the East, the Prairie is waiting for the fences to come down and the annual bison migration to begin again, when dozens then hundreds then thousands of head per herd moving annually between Mexico and Canada. That's such a pipe dream, yet it would be very much tried and true ecology. Maybe we will get smaller, in population and we don't need so much land to cultivate into massive farms all over the Plains States? Maybe? Maybe?

I wish that Lake Pillsbury Dam could be removed from the Upper Eel River. PG&E no longer wants it. Historically it supported great numbers of Steelhead and Chinook. As a Game Warden I patrolled that area for many years. It is a shame for such good habitat is out of production and has been for many years. This strain of Steelhead was the source of hatchery production for many years and is some of the largest fish in California! Many miles of stream have been lost......wold be a worthy project for a group or organization (tribal??)

Great journalism. Blessing to search for information on a topic and get a wonderfully edited, well rounded, human narrated video that left me with a better feeling of understanding. Carry on by all means. I look forward to follow ups on the progress of the restoration efforts!

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Why? What's so good about ecological disasters?

And what is going to happen on the electricity side when the supply is diminished at a time when demand is increasing due to the increase in electric cars? Also, this renewable power source is being removed at a time when utilities are required to convert more of their production to renewable sources.

@karenscribner7031

6 ай бұрын

Not to worry, all the people will be in the 15 minute cities walking and riding bikes.

@vids595

6 ай бұрын

These dams produce a tiny amount of electricity. If they produced more then the owners would uses their wealth to win the political fight to keep them. Hydro dams are not renewable energy in that they have massive ecological impacts.

@benrodriques

6 ай бұрын

​@vids595 those electric cars are even worse

And at Glen Canyon too !

Now do The Dalles Dam so we can get Celilo Falls back...doubt BPA would go for that.

@whskymilkshake

10 ай бұрын

now you're talking

@greatplainsman3662

9 ай бұрын

Wouldn't that be something.

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

And your house.. Omg wouldn't it be great to see your house bulldozed so where you live can return to the natural environmental state of past times.. Where the native americans lived in animal skin houses and moved around to not destroy one location..

I'm in BC Canada.. I am in the West Kootenays wondering if Salmon could return.. Why no fish ladders exist.. Would be amazing.. 😊

Thank god the removal project got approved. Can't wait to see the restoration of the ecosystem and its stability.

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

What about the ecological disaster this stupidity caused? Allah looks down at this and weeps.

@ParagonChumba

5 ай бұрын

And look what you brought us, hundreds of thousands of fish have died off mutilating the ecosystem directly correlated to this dams removal. You caused exactly what you tried to stop.

@billsmith5109

Ай бұрын

@@SujadAllah doesn’t sound very bright.

I think choosing to be a real estate agent or opening a store in a town of 50 houses is their problem not the rivers. 😂

@georgehaydukeiii6396

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely the truth. It's just another case of people blaming their bad decisions on someone else.

God Bless Aaron. Take back build small hydro in along the river now. And make free energy for the locals. Get rid of the Giant Corps.

So glad I got to run this river before the dam comes down. It was a blast. My older son took me for my 60’s birthday. Beautiful area

@craigkanish6127

6 ай бұрын

Now you’ll have the chance to go back and run the true river. Like surfing a wave pool vs a swell thats traveled thousands of miles to peel across a reef somewhere. It hits a little different, more complex and unpredictable. Do you want predictably or true adventure?

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

@@craigkanish6127Not really, they screwed it up. It's an ecological disaster now.

beautiful

And with a little luck and some smart biologists, maybe a few of the smaller tributaries will be populated with Beaver again. Those smaller streams can be dammed with logs and debris and they will back up enough water into the upper tributaries to keep the water stable and flowing, maybe less but still flowing even in Summer. It's like a thousand little controlled release valves, these Beaver "leaky" dams.

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

They created an ecological disaster.

Thank God - this is Loooong overdue

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Why? What's so good about ecological disasters?

This is a great video... Thank you

Where will the electricity come from that was supplied by the dams? I think people will be crying later

Noah is the last dude rocking the Soul Patch 😂

🎉 this is truly worthy of celebration! Now generations to come have a fighting cahnce to see this river in its glory! May the waters remain cool while flowing and let the fish return!

@markskibo5159

9 ай бұрын

Salmon tastes like POOP! Smelly!

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Why? What's so good about ecological disasters?

@heatherkaye8653

5 ай бұрын

@@Sujad the dam was the ecological disaster

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

@@heatherkaye8653 It really wasn't. Not compared to the disaster it now is.

@heatherkaye8653

5 ай бұрын

@@Sujad the earth has no problems solving its issues out without human intervention. Our technologies are the problem.

Go Salmon Go!

@brandonduarte6757

9 ай бұрын

Going to make it worse for salmon just like what happened here on the rogue river.

@jesse75

6 ай бұрын

​@@brandonduarte6757Rogue has been impacted beyond repair. Too many people living along the river. Too much run off. Too much fishing pressure. Too many sea lions at the mouth. Too many boaters. Too much logging.

@brandonduarte6757

6 ай бұрын

@@jesse75 you really need to lay off those hormone blockers and boosters. No one can be that delusional naturally.

@dukester5932

5 ай бұрын

Your salmon are dead now. The river will never be the same with 60 million yards of toxic sludge. Fools

Maybe the Native Americans can get back to commercial gill netting again with their nylon nets.

@powderbeast5598

10 ай бұрын

Ouch , and true. Columbia river gillnetting is pretty disgusting . ...

@jesse75

6 ай бұрын

​@@powderbeast5598catches the hatchery and native fish both. That's what I don't like.

My question is ,has any of sediments been tested down stream?. how many farmers up stream?.

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

Nope and they blew the sediment all over place. It's an ecological disaster now.

@shawnsanders2182

5 ай бұрын

@@Sujad nice IMPACT STUDY.

@Sujad

5 ай бұрын

@@shawnsanders2182 Yeah, considering the rampant bureaucracy of California, you'd think they'd have known what would happen but no, they screwed the pooch.

Fortunately, cheaper to tear down than to maintain. Return of the salmon didn't work in CT (River).

Thank you for all the hard work.

well i really hope you can keep the river flowing were living in a drought and water is getting scarce , not trying to start anything but the people that live next to the lake are loosing business and a way to live plus they might loose the water in there wells if that happens you will see abandon buildings and houses , so lets go ahead to do this and we shall see what happens take care everybody

What’s it going to do the lake levels of Klamath lake when everyone wants even more water?

Anyone from New York living here in K Falls? Or anyone who have lived in New York City and moved to K Falls? I found a great house in Klamath Falls, but I'd like to meet people from back home.

Snake river is next!!!

@brianjohnston4207

6 ай бұрын

Removing the 3 lower dams is pointless unless you remove the dams upriver. Every dam from Hells Canyon up to Milner would have to be removed to restore the habitat and water quality that salmon traditionally spawned in.

Damned if you do damned if you don't.

So when the dams are removed, and the water goes away in late summer, then what? Additionally, i am willing to bet as the environment changes, water is still used, people just like california, will complain they dont have water. Those dams force water into a water table, that will disapear. Additionally where is your power going to come from?

Ask yourself who gets the lake property now that it's drained

I feel for peoples' communities and businesses, but salmon and mother nature have been around for much longer

Make believe progress focused like a laser beam.

Sediment built up behind dams should be dredged and put on depleted valley agricultural soils. Perhaps sifted for gold too. Decades of built up sediment will affect everything downstream including existing banks, gravel bars etc. including where the river and ocean intersect. This could threaten salmon and other wildlife health health

@jjxtwo1

9 ай бұрын

Have you checked out the Elwha River and how much it benefited from dam removal? The sediment restored the river's delta at the ocean. It's a years long process.

@brandonduarte6757

9 ай бұрын

It's going to destroy everything downstream to the ocean. Under 4 feet of sediment. No more salmon spawning beds.

@jjxtwo1

9 ай бұрын

@@brandonduarte6757 Nope, wrong. Short-term possibly some issues but long-term great benefits from the sediment being released.

@brandonduarte6757

9 ай бұрын

@@jjxtwo1 not according to local scientists. I live out here. Been listening to the scientists for a couple years now plus what happened on our rogue river. Made our fishing way worse.

@jjxtwo1

9 ай бұрын

@@brandonduarte6757 We can talk again in 10 years. The river will be healthy.

Whats the affect on wildlife???

@gabrielford3473

9 ай бұрын

They've done pretty well with free flowing rivers for as long as they've existed.

@dukester5932

5 ай бұрын

Dozens of dead deer stuck in the muck that have to be euthanized. Bald eagles dead. Geese dead. Otters, etc. go take a look at what they’ve done. It’s horrible

@lisad476

5 ай бұрын

@@dukester5932 TY for the update..

Great job removing the invasive species and planting the local flora; I feel bad for the locals but in my opinion the health of the biosphere is more important. I hope everyone wins in the end and people can adapt to the change.

@ParagonChumba

5 ай бұрын

Nope In fact hundreds of thousands of fish have died off due to this dams removal and the substantial and rapid change that it did to the ecosystems The salmon that they were trying to save are dying at a far more expedited rate than ever before in history.

It's about dam time...

Introduce beaver. They will engineer a habitat.

Say goodbye to the prime crappie fishing

It’s been 10 years since the the dam was removed from the Sandy river. The fishing is worse now than before it was removed. Maybe in 100 years it will get better?

@brandonduarte6757

9 ай бұрын

Same thing on the rogue river. It made it way worse. Same thing will happen on the Klamath.

@unclest1nky

9 ай бұрын

@chesterroberts4647 Don't bet on it. All this dam removal will cause the water to go straight out to the ocean, and then what will come is more drought. This is all about water control. The dams were put here for a reason. To hold back water in dry times. Well, more dry times are coming! I hope these w0k€ |\|utj0b$ are happy because they're d€$tr0y!|\|g Oregon. I can't wait to see how horrible it is here in 10 years.

@underthetrees4780

9 ай бұрын

​@brandonduarte6757 I did find it curious they're won't be sufficient flow to float the river in late summer, but they're confident the fish will return all the way to Klamath Lake during the fall spawn? With what water?

@brandonduarte6757

9 ай бұрын

@underthetrees4780 going to be a creek. I also go for gold on the Klamath, so with low water, it's going to open up new spots.

❤ 11:16 I AM QUITE DISAPPOINTED ABOUT YOUR MISLEADING TITLE TO YOUR VIDEO TALKING ABOUT THE DAM REMOVAL WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING BUT. I SEE A LOT OF VIDEOS CLAIMING TO SHOW THE TAKING OUT OF THE DAMN BUT NONE OF THEM SHOW ANYTHING CLOSE TO THAT.

It would be nice to have included how much clean power is produced by the hydroelectric dams and what it will be replaced by. Climate change matters.

@jeffkerber2399

9 ай бұрын

There is no such thing as clean energy. All forms have some sort of environmental cost.

@RCRitterFPV

9 ай бұрын

there is cleaner energy.... @@jeffkerber2399

@brandonduarte6757

9 ай бұрын

No such thing as climate change. It's a scam wake up. Don't be brainwashed. All predictions have been wrong and they profit off simple minded people's hysteria.

Buy kayaks.

But you'll have good salmon fishing to look forward to, people won't have to travel south to fish for salmon

@dukester5932

5 ай бұрын

Actually, quite the opposite. The river is ruined. The amount of sediment cannot and will not recover from. The hubris is sickening

If you knew there was a very good chance that the dams would be removed, then why did you buy property "lakefront" there! Seems like a very foolish investment!!

This will be beautiful again! Sort of like when I go to the chiropractor and feel so much better after I get those painful areas open again! Love to all!

Man I am happy they are removing the dam.

Waterways belong to the public. They should benefit the public first, not private landowners.

So if these are dams that supply electricity why cut them out of a struggling system that doesn't supply enough power for the future of electric cars ?

The sediments and water are constantly being tested and, since the removal, the levels of heavy metals and toxins in the water and sediments are rapidly decreasing, as predicted by engineers prior to the dam removal. The amount of electricity generated by the dams was not enough for the utility companies to profit from and the dams were already decommissioned as power generating facilities. Every potential environmental and/or utility resource complaint by the naysayers has been disproven. The only people losing here are real estate and travel agents, who should be- and are -at the bottom of our list of priorities here.

And now hundreds of thousands of fish have died off the entire reason why they removed the dam in the first place was to protect these species and they have unilaterally caused this mass die off due to the substantial changes they produced with this dam destruction

Get rid of the dams!!

The life of the Salmon is the minors canary

I will wait on the sidelines till I see how this massive project works out. Will the salmon move upstream? What is going to replace the power generation from these dams? I’ll wait and see what happens! Man thinks he can do anything, but I have my doubts. It’s ok to disagree with me. Just be civil and polite.

@gabrielford3473

9 ай бұрын

Was it not human's belief that they could do anything that has practically destroyed an ecosystem and millenia old free, renewable food source by damming it all up and thinking it would work out fine? Us assuring the natives that they're way was no longer necessary or relevant for we had technology that would render their ways archaic and obsolete? I'd look at the damn removal project on the Elwah River in Wa. State for evidence of fishery restoration. It's been a smashing success. These rivers were damned off naturally by ice, covered by glaciers off and on through various ice ages and the fish always make their way back up the rivers. At times the access was blocked over thousands of years. These damns have been there for a split second in the bigger scheme. As for power production, I'm not versed on the particulars of the damns on the Klamath, but hundreds of hydro electric damns throughout the west have been rendered obsolete and no longer provide energy in a capacity that offers much, if any, value. Many localities that used to rely on these smaller damns haven't pulled power from them in decades. Again, not sure if that's the case here, but I'd bet so. Cheers to you and we'll see how this works out. Personally I see this as man letting nature regain control instead himself thinking he can do anything. I hope that was civil and polite. I appreciate good debate and also am just fine with disagreements of opinion.

@GOD719

9 ай бұрын

No. They return to almost the exact same location they were born. So if they were born below the dam. They will not go any further. They could put hatchery fish up stream. And that would work.

@gabrielford3473

9 ай бұрын

@@GOD719 how did fish find their way back up rivers as different ice sheets blocked and unblocked rivers over and over for thousands of years?

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

@@gabrielford3473 How is the Elwah river a "smashing" success?? I think you got your resource from the youtube academy.. Your comments are not only vague but just plain silly.. What "renewable" food source are you talking about?? a Few thousand salmon?? Do you know how many people live off the salmon?? It's supplmental at best to a families diet.. I do not know of a single native american that lives in a traditional way of live.. Even in this video Troy crying got his over weight butt out of a Brand new Tax payer paid for 3/4 ton pickup to go look at fish on a bridge over the precious river.. Is he the one you are saying is going to his native american technology from a century ago cooking a fish head?? So no.. Tearing out the dams is going to viewed at BEST a social experiment. My guess it will eventually be viewed negatively and a dam of some source will be needed to be rebuilt so it will hold back water for hot and dry summer periods that the rivers dry up or get too hot for fish.. But companies like Pacificorp just don't want the fight anymore, will tear them out, and be able to say play the win/win card.. If the experiment is a success then everyone's happy.... If it's a disaster (which is what I predict) they will be able to say I was forced to do it and I told you so..

@gabrielford3473

9 ай бұрын

@@tomwillis9051 Well, I guess my career as an environmental (not environmentalist) educator will take a backseat to your "predictions. The fact that I don't deeply involve myself with your nonsense is no indication of me losing an argument. Your just too exhausting with tired, uninformed arguments and I'm more interested in debate with people who are POLITE AND CIVIL, dick

The salmon are so beat up by the time they get to Irongate Dam. I don't think they Will be able to make it Any further before they die. I think that this was Unnecessary!

@ParagonChumba

5 ай бұрын

And look what happened, hundreds of thousands of fish are dying off specifically due to this damns removal and the substantial changes to the ecosystems that they were not prepared for. All of these fishes deaths are directly correlated to that damn's removal. Full stop.

I know the intention behind dam removal is good, but oregon has been seeing increasingly dryer climate over the last few years. if those trends continue, we could be really kicking ourselves for not holding on to more water reserves.

There's gonna be a whole lotta dam water comin' down that river next year. ... *ahem*

@heatherkaye8653

10 ай бұрын

😂

The native people lost a livelihood and food. Now the people who stole the land are complaining that their un-natural lake will go away.

Huge win for the salmon bull trout and steelhead. Who cares about the rafters. .. Grow up.

This really needs to be happening a lot more within the entire western side of the U.S.

@matthewwelsh294

10 ай бұрын

But you would be removing a source of green energy

@jimsomerville3924

10 ай бұрын

@@matthewwelsh294 They are the farthest from "green". The ecological impacts have been horrendous to river systems of the west. Renewable, yes.

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

@@jimsomerville3924 and your "green" solution to provide energy?? And anything you say I will point out the negatives about !!

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

says someone who probably in on the East Coast getting energy from burning Coal ..

@marumiyuhime

Ай бұрын

@@matthewwelsh294 dams are far from green

Take your Copco real estate selling behinds somewhere that's not going through a natural renewal process & stop whining. There's real estate to sell elsewhere.

@ResortDog

9 ай бұрын

The corporations never lose, only their cheap power using customers. The assests were stripped from PP&L by hedge funds decades ago.

Welcome more water shortages

Disaster! People had no idea this would be the outcome. Since removal of Dam suspended sediment in the water has brought the dissolved oxygen level down to zero twice since the dams were removed. Now, you see muck and mud, dead fish floating to the banks, crawdads, and we see animals trying to crawl out of the water to escape. Reply

Dam removel is only the first step. Then deforestation and natural plant life all the way up a d down needs to be addressed. Its not a quick fix. Those 800 Year old trees that used to be there that helped retain moisture can't be grown over night. I wish.

@underthetrees4780

9 ай бұрын

You're talking about an area with wildfire and volcanoes, the trees will adapt and fill in just fine.

This idea will pay for itself if used. Dam, what a loss of potential electrical water power, building a powered fish ladder or channel around the Dam so fish can move freely up and down the river could offset the cost. Why, we waste miles and miles of unused potential electrical water power by not installing these slow speed underwater turbines called Waterotors in all rivers and streams moving 2 to 5 miles an hour. These units are being used by the Canadian military in the far North to replace diesel generators. Waterotors won't harm fish, can be moved if needed, work 24/7 unlike wind and solar and work in tidel flow areas along coastlines. The Green Dream won't happen without these units to power the future needs of EV cars. Search it on KZread, this is just an idea I got off KZread. Fact check it yourself, I don't work for or sell anything.

These dams are old, if they fail the owner of the dams would be liable for reparations for all damages.

love and hate!

This is the height of stupidity. Hydropower, flood control, recreation, and irrigation are more valuable than salmon.

More important to have a free flowing river then anything else

The only thing thats going to change the salmon problem is stopping the off shore sea rapers from foreign countries

@jesse75

6 ай бұрын

Also, let Natives start hunting sea lions.

I once new a young friend that passed away and died. I always remember that when you see a man made object like a cement building or casino on a beautiful mountain with trees and wilderness up in the Sierra Nevada‘s to me that’s just looks like an ugly zit on somebody’s face or a wart Getting rid of man-made structures and letting nature take over as a certain appeal for a beauty if you want to wait for the right moment of time to go down the stream, it’s better to rely on nature it just seems like more exciting and you never know what you’re going to get in the end.

@tomwillis9051

9 ай бұрын

And you live where again??

@benrodriques

6 ай бұрын

Hey those indians have to get money somehow. Government doesn't pay them enough to 'survive' the whole this is our way of life crap is a joke. What like 10% of so called 'native' Americans actually could live like they used to.... everything is given to them. Nothing I did ever hurt a colored person's family. Just stop with all this charades already. Poor me stuff. Make the white man pay.

I'm going to school for horticulture and ecological restoration and I love the environmental and cultural wins that are happening right now!

Gee, those dudes will lose three docks… so what?

Can't wait until the river is free again and people are disappointed because the salmon will not return at expected levels. Be careful what you ask for. Until the real problem is addressed, which is overfishing salmon in the Pacific Ocean.

@bogiepull3r

9 ай бұрын

Salmon won't return to the klamath Basin at all. 1. There's a 40' natural waterfall. 2. They won't spawn in pumice.

Let's get this straight, No The power company did not "decide" to take them out. there was a lot more to the 'decisions. Be honest. I know that's hard opb but you need to try.

@samstheman6178

3 ай бұрын

The river is destroyed. All the fish, insects, otters dead. Nice work. Hope is not a strategy.

@georgehaydukeiii6396

3 ай бұрын

​@@samstheman6178 the river is fine. Why do you lie? I was there yesterday, it's running clear again. This is a monumental project that will go down in history as one of the greatest things man ever did. It's just sad that some anti-government, conspiracy theorist, haters want to discredit anything that benefits the environment or natural world.

Environmental win and jobs!!!🙏👏👏👏👏💞

Why not just install fish ladders, fruitcakes?

@ResortDog

9 ай бұрын

They did, not enuf for the wanters.

DAMS BAD....SALMON GOOD !

International fishing teams found out where the salmon go in the Pacific Ocean to grow up. The Siberian salmon fisheries were wiped out. Facing starvation at home due to grand solar minimum record flooding, Chinese fishing vessels violate local fishing grounds Pacific Rim wide. Good luck to hatcheries preparing to seed a free river. With millions of new homeless over the border, expect devastating poaching by families struggling to survive?

@b-boycastertroy

8 ай бұрын

Gotta start somewhere. We can't just keep doing this stupid sh*t. Lots of changes are still needed worldwide.