(01-15-2024, 12:58 PM)Mick Wrote: The largest dam removal in US history is happening just north of the California border as four of the six dams on the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern California are scheduled to be eliminated (three of them are hydroelectric dams). It will save salmon, steelhead, and lamprey among other species (it was once the third-largest salmon producer on the West Coast, but are down to a fraction of their production.
Dam removal on the Elwha River in Washington resulted in a quick recovery. Advocates are eyeing four dams on the Lower Snake River in Washington as the next big dam removal.
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/12/122449440...rning_brew
According to an article in SFGate, the attempt to restock the river following dam removal ran into some trouble last week: Hundreds of thousands of salmon released in Northern California river die in 'large mortality' event
