Who else came here after watching " Undamming the Elwha, the documentary" This was a great follow up. Thank you!!

@absolutevoltage28

4 жыл бұрын

I did and I saw that documentary after watching DamNation a documentary featuring the elwa removal

@pauljohnson9432

4 жыл бұрын

the dirtbag diaries just did a cool podcast on this last week. dirtbagdiaries.com/endangered-spaces-the-elwha-river-recovery/

@Mrbfgray

3 жыл бұрын

Love these success stories. Often big agencies do good but take on a life of their own and go a dam TOO FAR, certainly the case here.

@timothybmonahan

2 жыл бұрын

I did. I am watching stream and river restoration after watching the Patagonia movie, Damnation. LE'T'S GO! this is so encouraging.

All the people involved in this project should be so proud of the work you have done.

Everyone involved should feel immensely proud. What a beautiful river 😍

I consider the Elwha my "home water". I fly fished the upper river every September until it closed for fish recovery post dam removal. Supposedly it is scheduled to reopen this fall, but I don't know if I can fish it again, especially after watching this film - I find myself feeling that I respect the fish too much. I still remember the first Elwha rainbow that I caught (on a size 14 Elk Hair Caddis) in the upper river many years ago, and saying to myself "this is something special, this is not your typical rainbow trout". I have revisited the upper river during the fishing closure, and it remains my favorite river valley in Olympic National Park. I took my wife there a couple of years ago, and she understands why I want to have my ashes spread in the upper Elwha valley when the times comes. Thanks for the film - I recognized all of the locations.

Nice to see people nurturing our planet instead of exploiting its resources. this is the highest value work. thank you for your service.

I believe that before all the dams we had lots of Summer Steelhead in Nor Cal, OR, WA and BC. Now at 79, taking down many dams, all around the World, makes me very happy.

I visited the estuary of the Elwha in August of 2021 and I ended up watching this video because it stuck with me as one of the most wonderful and awe-inspiring places I have ever been. There were juvenile salmon leaping from the water, where hundreds of gulls were being hunted by bald eagles and out at sea we saw a pod of porpoises. As if to put the icing on the cake of this ecological wonder one of the cleanest surf breaks I've ever seen now graces the bay. Earth's rivers are a magical gift and truly the best reason to love and appreciate the splendor of our natural world. There is always hope, so long as we never forget where we came from.

Beautiful video! I’ve watched it 3 times - a wonderful story of nature bouncing back after human interference. So much hope! Thank you for sharing.🐟💪🏻

I live outside of Buffalo NY and most likely will never see that river but it warms my heart to see such a wonderful success story. Thank you all for your hard work. You should be very proud. Nature will find a way if we let her!

@sancharino6878

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! Hi neighbor

This should serve as a model for removing other obsolete dams like those on the Klamath.

@billrobbins5874

3 жыл бұрын

Incredibly wonderful. The steelhead is a beautiful looking fish.

@adventureanglingpnw1821

3 жыл бұрын

We need to remove the grand coulee dam on the colombia river and allow salmon and steelhead to reclaim native rivers they once called home.

@billrobbins5874

3 жыл бұрын

@@adventureanglingpnw1821 that would be very nice. That dam is quite old by now.

@adventureanglingpnw1821

3 жыл бұрын

@@billrobbins5874 dam right. If Oregon and Washington managed their salmon and steelhead fisheries like the great lakes do as a sport fishery it would thrive. It explains why the great lakes has such abundant runs of fish. Do away with the gill nets, commercial fishing for salmon or ban it for several years, and work with the tribes on solutions that could help them with their cultural heritage to salmon. I'm pretty sure we would see huge returns that my great grandfather told me about back in the early 1900s.

@billrobbins5874

3 жыл бұрын

@@adventureanglingpnw1821 agree, it would make this area extremely beautiful once again. Hoping dams have outlived there usefulness.

As a member of trout unlimited and supporter of dam removals this was a cool video to watch. There is debate and hopeful progress to be made in my native state of Maine concerning removing dams to foster Atlantic salmon return. Really enjoyed the video!

I’ve been following this ongoing story since dam removal. My goosebumps started around the one minute mark and only intensified as it went on. Such a remarkable story of what nature will do if man will just get out of the way. ❤️

I visited the Elwha in 1987 on my honeymoon. To see the progress made with the dam removal gives me so much joy, and hope for similar results when the Klamath dams come down. Great work TU and all associated organizations, and a fine film from Shane as always.

@andyfletcher3561

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, around the same time frame. Fished from the first dam to the sea. It was fantastic, and so beautiful. I can only imagine how much better now that the dams are gone.

@lofadem

2 жыл бұрын

Wow that’s the year I was born

I do love mother nature. Thank you mother 🌎

Thank you for all that you do....

Dude this was absolutely soothing to my sole! Restore our fisheries! Thank God!

I was so happy to see the dams come down. I did not hold my breath waiting for the fish to come back. If we leave nature alone, it finds its way. What a beautiful success story - thank you all for what you are doing.

Hope is hard to come by these days, but John nailed it: this story gives a lot of hope. Unbelievable. I couldn't be more proud of the work TU is doing. Not just with the removal itself, but with the determined, evidenced-based follow-up work which will be crucial to ensure we are able to advocate for removals like this well into the future. Fantastic job.

@nonewherelistens1906

4 жыл бұрын

So totally agree. TU is a great organization, responsible for a lot of good on cold water fisheries.

Steelhead now, steelhead forever!

This is so powerful to me. They just restored the creek on my property on the Eel river. There is a proposal just in to remove one of the two dams blocking off fish habitat in the upper Eel river. I spend time on the creek watching to see if we will get chinook salmon back in the creek. It has been two years now since they opened Woodman creek. I also hope more rivers on the peninsula can be repaired. I love that place. Thank you for your work!

Gives me joy and hope for the future and all those that will follow. Thanks for this great story!

Another excellent effort, Shane. Bust Deadbeat Dams!!!

@peterdorn5799

4 жыл бұрын

Elwha dam removal is what dreams are made of, I'm dreaming of the snake river now

@mattwhalen892

4 жыл бұрын

@@peterdorn5799 Remove dirty politicians like trump, Snake river next!

@travisjacobson7126

4 жыл бұрын

What’s wrong with dams?

@rdecarolis1

4 жыл бұрын

@@mattwhalen892 Any dirty do nothing democrats you'd like to remove?

@AdamTait-hy2qh

4 жыл бұрын

@@rdecarolis1 Democrats are pro environment. Republicans are pro profiteering.

Thanks to all that helped and that have supported that project to happen. A remarkable experience for the future of that fisheries. I have watched over the years as are salmon population decline in significant numbers and size ,since the 80s. Im in the noth central California area, not to far from Yosemite. All major rivers are as follows, Mokelumne Stanislaus Tuolumne and the Merced River all of which have had a impact in numbers . I have witnessed the growth and population of housing and agriculture in and around these rivers along with the many years of drought in California that have all taken its toll on the fisheries. I remember so many solmon in these rivers that when you walked into them you would get bummed or push out of the way by moving fish , some of which hit the 30lb plus size . Today your lucky to see 15 in a river system with a dramatic decline in size. Its such a difficult issue because people only think about their own needs for water and crops. Your story is very important and ill share it with people that care.

Fantastic ! Failure was on people's mind at the beginning......but look at the smiles on the faces of these dedicated people and the joy for the Elwha people.

This is a fantastic video. As a Washington resident I'm often hesitant to support many organizations cause it seems this state gets overlooked. But it's great to see a success story like this in a state that seems to fight at every step to improve habitat for our at risk species.

It is so gratifying to witness the restoration of habitat.

Amazing to see the river restoring itself like this. So many benefits have come from this removal with all the sediment now creating the estuary in tidal water, fish passage up to the headwater. All the nutrition and micro organisms can run freely through the whole river with no backups of stagnant water. Thanks Trout Unlimited!!

The most beautiful place ive ever seen

Well Done Documentary! as a retired nature Photographer, I find this so encouraging! Now...if we can just fix the Road!

Amazing film, amazing story, amazing dam removal! You're giving us hope. Greetings from Poland :)

Great story and fine film making. The more I learn about steelhead, the more impressive they seem as a species. Give 'em even half a chance and they can recover. One of the lessons here is we gotta double down on protecting and restoring their best remaining habitats.

Such a beautiful river system and hope they do an update video. This river is the poster child for the benefits of dam removal. Those under water shots were amazing great video.

I listened to the podcast and found this thank you for documenting its habitats like this that should lead the way in restoring rivers

Super cool and motivational for the projects that we face here on Europe! Thanks so much!

@andyfletcher3561

4 жыл бұрын

The case is being made worldwide, and not only for trout/salmon waters.

The river beautiful beautiful! The water is so clear! Glad the fish are returning!

This made me smile every time I think of it. I love nature. ❤️

SO AMAZING! We need to continue working to maintain and revive our incredible environment!

If there was ever a question that the issue is access to quality and quantity of habitat, this puts that discussion to rest. Nicely done and great to see my friend Rob M in the river getting wet. Mahalo nui loa!

So exciting!! Uplifting.

Awesome vid! Can’t believe that they still want to build the dam on the chehalis and I can’t wait til the day when they tear down all Columbia and snake river dams

@nonewherelistens1906

4 жыл бұрын

Dams are a 17th century solution to a 21st century problem. There are alternatives to dams that are less costly, more effective, and much more environmentally friendly.

Absolutely awesome

Beautiful film! Letting nature recover.

Man this was incredible, just awesome storytelling, thank you for sharing!

That was a nice short film about the fish recovery. I visited the area in 2003 or 2004 when the dams were still there and then came back about 15 years later when they were out and will try and visit again in a year or two to see it again post dams. One memory I have that sticks with me from the first visit was watching salmon swim around and around in circles at the base of the first dam looking for a way up stream but having no path. Seemed very sad. I'd vote for taking out as many dams as possible to help as many salmon as possible.

Powerful, I love that river

Great story. Wonderful outcome. Its nice to see somerhing improve instead of deteriorate.

"Life finds a way"

Thank you for all your personal involvement and hard-work guys!

AWESOME video that demonstrates how our beloved PNW fisheries can & WILL rebound, if given the opportunity to do so!

As one of the participants said, after watching this miracle I have more hope for the future than I have ever had.

Awe, Shane! That made me happy cry!

Great to know about these projects. Canterbury, New Zealand, where I live has huge river pollution problems, different cause though - dairy farming.

It would be nice to think that this river could be opened up for C&R flyfishing sometime in the near future. I used to hike & fish this several miles upstream from Whiskey Bend back in the 1990's for Rainbow Trout. Maybe they were Steelhead? Very pretty waters, & very challenging walk & access as I remember, but well worth it. Great effort paying off!

@andyfletcher3561

4 жыл бұрын

Lots of large, sharp, moss covered rock where I fished it. I hooked a fish every cast.

@speedbird1598

2 жыл бұрын

@@andyfletcher3561 If you fished it after the dams came down, you are fishing illegally

@andyfletcher3561

2 жыл бұрын

@@speedbird1598 1985

@speedbird1598

2 жыл бұрын

@@andyfletcher3561 I see

Amazing video. Well worth watching

I think that's an awesome video and that shows the fact these populations can bounce back.

Well done Shane and TU!

This so awesome for a river and it's Steelhead and Salmon to be coming back!!!!!!!!.Need to have many more West Coast rivers have the same dams removed!!!!!!.

Fine work

Great film, really shows how resilient these fish really are. And this brought back many memories for me, we would snorkel the Calawah and Sol Duc in the summer looking for fishing gear, and seeing fish was awesome.

Bravo!

beautiful story and video... literally brings tears to my eyes. let's keep up this progress!!

Love to see a healthy forest too!

Good to see trout unlimited helping wild recovery efforts. They stock here in NE Ohio and even have gotten breeding populations established in one or two of the streams

Awesome work guys! So rad!!

@derekcollins1972

4 жыл бұрын

Totally dope

Great story; awesome film!!!

Amazing documentary! Nice job!

Wonderful! Its so great to see nature restore its beauty in the midst of human interaction.

Nice edit I could watch an hour of that

Wow that is so awesome and encouraging. I hope they continue to remove dams at a prodigious rate

Magnificent - what an inspiring piece of work. A brilliant job that gives us all hope for the future - well done.

The way nature intended... Fantastic job bringing awareness to what conservation looks like 🤘

Amazing edit on this, Great story and very uplifting. Well Done!

There is hope! Incredible!

Great job to this entire team! Great film, even greater fish, for the best of reasons.

well made, beautiful, and informative; thank you!

Beautiful. I'm loving this damless river. My fishing ground is the mid-Columbia river. Tons of bass, walleye and introduced species here. But salmon and trout are so depleted that they banned the fishery 😔

Awesome! i've been waiting for a video update on the Elwha. The underwater footy was incredible.

The water just amazing

I’m trying to figure out how people dislike this video lol

@wowthtsgood

3 жыл бұрын

most dislikes are genuinely people missing the like button

@slowstang88

3 жыл бұрын

Mostly because there's no videos of females in wetsuits

@erikdohme1097

3 жыл бұрын

@@slowstang88 *shoulder shrug* well at least you’re honest.

@eddiecharles6457

3 жыл бұрын

It's because you can't fix stupid.

@waltsnow1762

3 жыл бұрын

Trumpanzeez !

Great work you guys are doing but also great filming, gotta give it up to you guys for just being all-around quality

Perfect and thanks for sharing! Awesome pictures.

I would love to chat with someone from the research team on the process of cataloguing as we want to do something similar on the Middle Shuswap above Wilsey Dam near Vernon, BC. What an incredible story we hope to mimic here in our local waterways.

This really is so awesome. Great video

Nicely Done! Kudo's to the crew who had to pack that camera gear to and from the river. I'm sure that was not fun.

Awesome, all man has to do to help nature is get out of the way

@MrAdrenaline00

4 жыл бұрын

Bill 1314 I know, it is horrible that natural reproduction it’s so scarce that they have to make a documentary about it. Since the monopolization of water natural reproduction is non existent. Here in Colorado our waters are packed full of inbred genetically modified liberal fish.

@michaelmartin7176

3 жыл бұрын

Just add water LOL !

Dam, that was encouraging.

Fishing for fun and food in moderation is something we need to preach to younger generations. Our local rivers in Humboldt county are Catch and Release, which is great but there are still people poaching and taking way too many fish from other rivers that you can keep.

Inspiring video

fantastic stuff

Love this video!!!

Magnificent work, shows what can be done if we don't interfere with nature.

Absolutely beautiful. Lets keep restrictions in place over time and use the Elwah as a case for environmental remediation without muddying the waters (pun intended).

That's awsome! Makes me smile! 😃

Nice Job!!!

The return of life to the freed Elwha is certainly the stuff of miracles. Now we just need to see all of the Olympic rivers received Wild and Scenic designation.

I read a article in Sport Fishing Magazine Sept/Oct 2018 pg 10 about Sea Lion over population having a effect on the salmon and steelhead population. Sea Lions eating up alot of salmon & steelheads.

@alexpulsifer783

4 жыл бұрын

Sea lions are annoying in California they steal your fish. I'm not saying let's go kill every sea lion but a little population control wouldn't hurt.

@bruce2keys270

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexpulsifer783 You are so right on this topic. Let's hope it happens !

@dianenauertz9608

4 жыл бұрын

Killing sea lions is not the answer. If humans just stay the hell out of the way ecosystems take care of themselves.

@bruce2keys270

4 жыл бұрын

@@dianenauertz9608 California sea lions are under the protection of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.

So promising, I live along stevens creek in CA. We have a population of steelhead and raibows seperated by a dam built in the 30s. For the longest time they use to stock hatchery trout in the resevoir but they eventually stopped to save the native fish and they found they was almost no interbreeding between the hatchery fish, and the native fish occured. Unfortunatly they will never bust the dam or build any sort of fish ladder. California, we are always low on water. But there are several top tech companies along the watershed, I dont see why they could come up with some solution even if it was just about good PR points with the public.

@rdecarolis1

4 жыл бұрын

Good point. Many studies have been done and prove that hatchery fish do not impact wild fish populations, thank you for providing more evidence of that.

Washington state is so lucky to take down the dams. I wish California would do the too. I used see steelhead in the parjaro river in the 1980s. They are gone now.

@andyfletcher3561

4 жыл бұрын

I hear they are coming back to Malibu and Santa Clarita, slowly but surely.

That's awesome and so good to hear. I would love to work with trout unlimited. Such a great organization.

Thats awesome!