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Why this video has very few views is sad. We’re spoiled with clean water in this country and assume that it’s always gonna be that way without NPDES, clean water act compliance, and accountability. Our surface waters have no hope for a clean future.
we fucked up more in nature than we realize....
Tangerine darters are gorgeous!
Tangerine darters are my personal fav!
Fish and wildlife management student taking aquatic ecology. Thanks for bringing what I’m learning to life in your videos! Keep up the good work!
Imagine those crawling on your legs while crossing the murky river
So true❤
bugs are amazing i wish they are bigger like huggable size.
Her voice is so calming
Laurie is a retired K-12 teacher and lifelong educator, and a captivating speaker!
You should get more recognition this is some quality content and idk why but i love looking at the bugs in the water
Thank you for the kind words - please help share and spread the word!
Interesting stuff
this was a great video! the music goes perfect with the newts underwater mating dancing. What state was this filmed in?
So glad you enjoyed the video! These newts were filmed in Western Oregon.
If you’re lucky to not see a bear first or even feeding on the salmon
Dont turn on your lights then why. Dont you make a artificual habitat but leave the damns alone .
The dam has more value than your lunch
bull trout are cool
Are you going to continue your rehabilitation efforts by filling in the Sodom ditch and remediating that artificial drainage way? I mean, isn't the point to return the river back to the historic flow pattern? The Sodom Ditch appeared to attract most of the anadromous fish, and the dam did not appear to present a significant barrier because of a functioning ladder. So the dam removal was more political than biological?
GREAT CONTENT!!!
Glad you liked the video!
And they eat the game fish eggs by the millions. Garbage fish, not allowed to throw them back where I live. A different color here, would freak out if I caught a blue one.
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I didn't know there are filter feeding insect larvae! My local caddisflies where I live (somewhere in Europe) only feed on biofilm! It is my first time seeing underwater insects that can create nets :D The river also looks so beautiful! Thank you for sharing :D
We're glad you found the video informative and intriguing! Capturing these little guys on film can be a challenging process, so there aren't too many videos out there for people to see them in their natural habitat. The diversity of caddisflies and other stream insects is huge and we were only able to cover a few of them here.
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Free & Clean the River's, replant the Trees and we MIGHT have a Chance for our Grandchildren too see their Grandchildren!
Awesome...❤ I love this kind of documentaries, ill share with my colleagues
Lovely to see the young people taking such a close-up interest! All the best from the UK.
this is why i dont trust people in the present.... that oops of unaccountability in the future
Such a cool edit. Lovin the channel.
Glad you enjoy it!
A stream like that should have a healthy beaver population. If you want lamprey and fish, you need beavers to create habitat that will provide them with shelter. The wetlands they create will provide habitat to countless other creatures as well, including frogs and turtles. Wetlands will also provide cool, clean water into the stream in the hot, dry months of summer, and will help to restore groundwater. Beavers are after all a keystone species. Rivers and streams are incomplete without them.
This is brilliant! life long learner here, I grew up on a small river. Aquatic entomology isa project of understanding for me. very important topic.
As a child growing up in Washington state, I too was fascinated by all of the small hidden creatures that live in the abundant freshwater world of the innumerable streams of natural waters located west of the Cascade mountain range. This is a very interesting and valuable science to introduce young people to. There is so much life going on under the surface of a freshwater stream!😊👍
A moving story of humans who are working so hard to maintain something so important to both their history and the continued existence of an ancient species.
#SupportNativeRights #Salmon #DamsOut : great work: please spend time on #Estuary before and after : this is wonderful : don’t listen to the negative #Folks
Congratulations. Another dam bites the dust. This will haunt Oregon in the future. There will be brown outs and blackouts because the state keeps tearing out hydroelectric dams. Even if you want to wear sandals and hippie shirts and drive your electric cars, you still need electricity. Wind and Solar cannot come close to furnishing the demands of society. Most of these councils do not want oil, coal, or natural gas. And, boy ole boy, never nuclear. So, what's left? You keep tearing out these dams to save the salmon. And the salmon go out to sea and are gobbled up by too many sea lions that we are protecting. And, the large Chinese fish canneries that swoop up huge numbers of fish to take back to China. Great!
Sad to see the destruction of all these dams
Why?
Sad to see the same dumb comment from the same bot, over and over again.
Ok, so 13 years later what are the results if any?
Someone needs to contact the Oregon State Fish Biologist responsible for this river. Without effectiveness monitoring, all the talk about recovering salmon is all based on hypothetical discussions. Doesn't mean much to me. (Retired hydrologist/fish manager).
The removal of dams is a giant step towards river restoration, but it is only a part of the process. Restoration will never be successful unless the tributaries are protected as well, and that requires returning beaver populations to creeks and streams. Beavers create wetlands that provide habitat for countless bird, animals, insects, and fish. The wetlands supply cool, clean water to the river in the hot, dry summer months. Beavers are a keystone species, vital to the health of our rivers.
Beavers are super important! If you're interested, check out a couple videos we've made about the value of beavers. Beavers and Salmon - kzread.info/dash/bejne/doeG0tyJqr23o5s.html Living with Beaver - kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJWIyLWnd6fZqto.html
Oregon Beavers, especially! 😁
Flooding is necessary as well. Too bad the farmers have channelized the river so it can never be truly restored. Landowners would never allow that.
@@matthew3136 If beavers cause damage to a landowner's property, compensation should be paid. That is fair. I suspect many ranchers and farmers would be willing to support beaver populations on their land if there was some form of compensation.
So, its been 16 years since the last dam was removed? You should be celebrating year over year increases of salmon. 200,300, 500% increase. Wheres the damn fish? Isn't that what this is all about?
You think maybe the Holiday Fire , Willamette Falls ladder , insane pollution, record air and water temps, or downstream blooms could have anything to do with it? What increase % has happened? I can't seem to find that info easily.
I believe the above two comments ask very pertinent questions. Sometimes dam removal has a measurable positive effect. Like the Elwha river dam removal in Washington. Sometimes not, like on the Savage Rapids dam on the Rogue River near Grants Pass, OR. To maintain credibility, reporting of salmonid response should be released to the public every 10 years for maybe 30 or 40 years. I'm doubtful that the removal of Klamath River dams will result in measurable increases of Chinook. Klamath Lake, from which the Klamath River flows from, becomes a very warm body of water that experiences extreme algae blooms in summer into early fall. That's a thermal barrier to salmon, effectively in the same way as a concrete structure.
Love the thumbnail, with the caddisfly larvae looking like they're watching the excavator working
We appreciate you noticing! That's a favorite shot of ours as well.
I always call them succfish lol
Well done. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
I love everything about this message. The world needs more of this!
We're glad it struck a chord with you!
This is a really important message, thank you! We really need to start caring more about the other spises and our own planet and the people on it.
We're glad to hear that the message resonated with you!
@@freshwatersillustrated I am so thankful that you commentd! We need more content like yours