Posted on 09/01/2024 6:15:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The decades-long push led by tribal communities to remove four dams along the Klamath River reached another victory this week as crews began the project’s final stages, restoring historic water flows to the river for the first time in over a century.
The fight to remove dams along the Klamath began over two decades ago, when poor water quality and river flows caused tens of thousands of the river’s fish, mostly Chinook salmon, to die in a massive fish kill in 2002. For thousands of years, Chinook salmon have been a fundamental source of physical, spiritual and economic sustenance to tribal communities throughout the Klamath Basin.
After the fish kill, tribes like the Yurok and Karuk began a fierce advocacy campaign that insisted that removing the dams is a necessary step toward reviving the original ecosystems, migratory routes and spawning grounds of the salmon. A plan to begin the dam removal process was approved by federal regulators in 2022.
“The dams that have divided the basin are now gone and the river is free,” Frankie Myers, vice chairman of the Yurok Tribe, said in Wednesday’s news release. “Our sacred duty to our children, our ancestors, and for ourselves, is to take care of the river, and today’s events represent a fulfillment of that obligation.”
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Well, there goes their flood-control capability. When it happens I wonder if they’ll be able to connect the dots?
Yeah, that'll work.
And when the tribes start bellyaching about brownouts and high energy costs…
Reservoirs are evil. Desert 🏜️ 🌵 🐪 is good
Hope they don’t find out that nature is a bitch… But they probably will.
Last was 169MW generating capacity, but it was several times more before generation was taken offline in previous years.
Only a fool and a stooge really believes this scheme was pushed by Native American tribes.
” flows caused tens of thousands of the river’s fish, mostly Chinook salmon, to die in a massive fish kill in 2002. For thousands of years, Chinook salmon have been a fundamental source of physical, spiritual and economic sustenance to tribal communities throughout the Klamath Basin. “
I’m not sure how they know what the Chinook Salmon population in the Klamath basin was 1000 years ago. They just make this stuff up. I would bet there were fish kills there many times prior to 2002, for a variety of reasons, and that the fish recovered completely from the supposed 2002 fish kill.
Doesn’t releasing this water cause the ocean to “rise”? Are these greenie losers trying to drown the fish or something???
>> When it happens I wonder if they’ll be able to connect the dots?
Of course not. Fools gotta fool.
Unless the people who built the dams all went away and everything is as it was before they all showed up, this doesn’t appear to be a good idea.
curious7: "Well, there goes their flood-control capability. Four lower hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River were removed.
The two upper flood-control dams remain in place and are not planned for removal.
The river basin is generally wilderness and looks like the photo at right:
This is cool! When can we get rid of Hoover Dam and all the others. The Indians can reclaim mother earth!
Dinosaur facts were killing off the fish by causing rising temperatures, but then a massive asteroid hit the earth and killed off the dinosaurs, and the fish thrived, until cows began farming in unison on ranches all across the globe /s
Geese, dino farts and cow farts I meant- dang autocorrect
The numbers I found for the four removed dams are:
Hatchet Ridge Wind Farm
~100 miles away:
145 MW total removed = roughly enough for 100,000 homes.
Most of that water was flood control and irrigation.
The Injuns will still complain for freebies. It is a profitable industry and they are little more than tokens for the democrats.
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