California removing dams along Klamath River to restore wildlife
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- NBC’s Maura Barrett goes off-roading with the team working on the largest dam removal project in the Klamath River on the California-Oregon border. All four decade-old dams should be removed by the end of 2024 for the sake of the environment.
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#California #Dam #Removal
Add beavers back and the river and land around it will REALLY heal
You people and your beaver answer. Funny.
@@jesse75 Beaver and salmonids go together like salt and eggs!
Who doesn't love beaver?
@@seeharvester even women like beavers.
Now they just need to do something about the farm runoff polluting it...
This! ⬆️
That's an Oregon problem.
Stop growing potatoes and crappy cow food. Start growing more trophy redband trout and Chinook salmon!
Look up the kissimme river restoration project in the Florida Everglades if you like this topic guys.
Thanks
I looked it up. They built levees for flood control and put roads on top of the levees. The restoration project added pump stations to restore the flow downstream WITHOUT removing any of the levees. Totally different
The Everglades restoration project is 100% man-made artificial. It's about as natural as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Walt Disney World in Orlando
A glimmer of hope in this gloomy messed up world
You forgot about the eagles
Thank you democrats for having respect for the land and it's people.👏
Yeah letting criminals commit crimes making victims in the end really says a lot about how well they care . All about votes
Land and it's people?? You know someone has to supply you with goods and services you demand right?? You do realize, Groceries don't come from Walmart and power doesn't come from the wall outlet right??
Respect for prime fishing vacation, everyone else better move out of the area
love this .. columbia / snake river should be next.. cant let salmon/steelhead go extinct in these watersheds just so some farmers can irrigate their crops and a few rich guys can get richer selling power to canada and california .. the power generated from these dams are are not used locally.
yeah who needs crops or food anyway !! We need "salmon" in our ecosystem swimming in a river.. Those salmon add so much to every humans quality of life !! I wonder how important they will be when your run low on electricity and food..
@@tomwillis9051 I don’t need a mega corporation to provide my food. I can garden. Just like how everyone lived 300 years ago.
@@crowpvpgod4537 Oh really?? Where do you get yours jars from ?? Where do you get your seeds from?? Where do you get your lids from?? Who provides you power for your freezers?? Who provides you gasoline to power your rototiller?? Where do you get your tools to till and work your ground??Where do you pump your water from to water your garden?? What hoses do you use for your garden?? Who provides you chemicals to spray your garden from insects?? Lastly, I seriously doubt you 100% eat foods from your garden without any trips to the grocery store.. You sir... I would be so bold as to say are a Naive Liar !!
I seriously doubt you live like someone from 300 years ago on... any... Level!!!
@@tomwillis9051 the water is used mostly for hay. You don't eat hay do you? There are less thirsty forage options. Farmers gotta adapt same as everyone else.
@@crowpvpgod4537 I'll send you some of my rare rattlesnake beans so you can get started.
Human just waking up ha
76% of dams are high hazard. That could be the best news for the environment if the energy production can be replaced by clean nuclear energy.
Clean Nuclear energy?? What are you talking about?? What do you call NUCLEAR WASTE?? It takes Thousands of years to make that waste safe.. .. You pro-rate the costs of thousands of years of oversight I don't think it's clean, safe, or cheap..
you believe in ' clean coal ' right?@@tomwillis9051
Give land management/forest fire management back to the Natives. They were thousands of years ahead of us when it came to working WITH nature. Pay them for it. You don’t have to give up your home. Controlled Burns & Rewilding with cooperation of local tribes should be a national movement!
worst idea ever.. have you ever been to a nice indian reservation?? they cant manage themselves why would they be good at managing rivers and fish populations? unless you like paying them tons of money to fish while they over harvest and close seasons to white people.
What are you talking about?? Unless you know of different stories, Native American's struggled with life and nature just as much as any other human being.. And as far as I have seen they have adapted to "society values" with wood houses, pick-ups, junk cars, and being overweight just as the rest of Americans have..
Will we still have clean running hot water? I'll miss that
Any impact study done on all the sediments washed down from the farmers? Burt Dame named one of must toxic streams in the United States. if that dame wash released it would be LOVE CANAL all over again.
An excuse to force you into the green new deal.
spoken like a true trump cult member
Allowing fresh water to disappear into the ocean sounds like the opposite of what we should be doing
If the runoff is slow enough it should still permeate into the groundwater downstream. Beaver dams and stuff help, not sure if there are beavers in California though, might have to transfer some.
With drought salt water is coming up the Mississippi. Lets not have salt water come up where it doesn't belong.
@@CrazyCountess that won't happen too much on the west coast, the shoreline is steep and the hills/mountains are tall.
Well, maybe at the port cities a little.
what we should be doing is returning the river to how it was.. fish need fresh water running into the ocean...the ocean needs fresh water flowing into it.. californians need to get a clue .. most places in need of water have farming restrictions... but instead california has massive flood and drain soy industry along with tons of almond crops (3 gallons per almond )
Dams don't stop fresh water from going to the ocean.
As a lifelong Klamath County resident I am doubtful they will see the number of fish return they expect. Long term I feel like this is a good idea. But what about the folks in the flood plain we used to have long ago? When these people are affected by flood, which is a guarantee in the years to come we will see how many natives jump up to help those folks…
One thing you will see about a native american.. They are great asking for things.. Great at taking.. Great at conversation and story telling.. Not the best attitude towards giving to others..
@@tomwillis9051I see you are spewing racist and misleading statements on all of these videos
Educate yourself on the history of the indigenous people in the area you live in and the treaty obligations the US government and States have to them. The tribes in this region were impacted by genocide carried out by the US government and by the whites who settled on native land and their treaty obligations were ignored for decades and in some cases almost a century. Treaties have just as much power as the US constitution. With an open mind and a little research you might come to understand why the tribes aren't so happy to help us anymore...
@@Spencer_Plant_Projects I think it would go the same vice versa.. The Federal Government "allotted" lands to the tribes. The federal government can technically take them back (and have). There were a lot of rights and responsibilities that came with reservations. Tribes have violated just as many of them as anyone else.
@@tomwillis9051 you can educate yourself and do research to learn more or you can continue to share your "feelings" about a particular subject one is respected the other is not.
The environment doesn't need us to manage it. It's been doing that itself for millions of years. What it needs is for us to manage ourselves and recognize the fact that we are nothing more than a cog in its machine, part of its system not the other way around. It is good to see these old dams come down and putting the land back into the hands of nature. There are better ways to generate power these days and even better on the horizon.
I think this is right choice too many wildfires and pollution now.
I agree… there are other areas that water can be collected and stored.
California fighting the good fight
Awesome news 👏 ❤🎉
Now if only the same thing happens with Tulare and Owens lakes
Makes perfect sense in an area that is normally in drought.
It's a high mountain desert area where the dams were located. The rain pattern is in the lower river.
The upper source of the river is Klamath Lake and the south rim of Crater Lake, where there is winter snow pack.
It sure does!
@@georgehaydukeiii6396 please don't hunt deer in the Hornbook area near Klamath. There's no deer there.
@@jesse75 ???
@@georgehaydukeiii6396 shows how much you know about the area.
Nice cant wait for flooding in the winter again :) lol
My ancestors dealt with it just fine; what's your excuse?
@@dannmarceau they didn't enjoy hot showers in their homes either.
ever been in the area... not to many people or towns next to the river
R.I.P, algae.
830,000 dead salmon a herd of elk and counting
@jimbear3797
A herd of elk? Where did you hear that?😂 I don't think you know what you're talking about, do you?
We should have done this 50 yes ago. To late die humanity!!!! Hahahahaha
Now they need to dredge the sediment to fully restore for the wildlife.
Eh they'll probably remove some but that sediment is supposed to be at the mouth of the river building an estuary
It happens pretty quickly. Just need some good rains and it will naturally start working its way down. Elwha river improved in just 3 years and every year after it just is getting better.
20-30 years ago, they told us that hydroelectric energy was the main source of energy for the region. Now, they are getting rid of dams and outlawing any energy but electric.
I smell a fish.
Who are "they"?
Hydroelectric energy is better than electric energy
@@RuthB51They are the elite
@@tubecated_development Do the elites have names?
Math is off. These dams were built in the 60s. Other dams in the country are over 100 years old
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We have for flood control irrigation Hydro electric control the temperature of the river for the fish
What about BEAVERS???
God designed Beavers to do the same thing.
Someone explain this to me please.
Thanks
Floods no irrigation for farms no control of temp of water for fish ,nohydro forelectricity fish ladders work why tear stuff up.Why don’t you build something?
YESSSSSSS
I hate the fake news reporting real news
Quit it
Why were there ever dams in the first place?
Power.
on the columbia river it was all about transport.. from the ocean to lewistown idaho.. power was secondary
Dams on almost every river or body of water were for flood control.. Something that will maybe arise again one day with their demise.. Secondary was harnessing the power of the water to turn machinery or power generation.. Third has been water storage to have water available during the hot summer months for crops and consumption.
@@uramag7 Most of the dams on the Columbia were actually to protect down river cities from massive uncontrollable surges.. Think of the watershed of the Columbia and the range of heights it must have.. I believe the columbia demolished portland oregon several times before the dams were put in..
We have for flood control irrigation Hydro electric control the temperature of the river for the fish and for firefighting
@user-cm7he2ep5x
Come back when you have learned the English language. Your comments make no sense. Are you a Russian bot?
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And CA has been in drought for years, they want to raise water prices 🤦♂️
Isn't that just supply and demand economics?
Cut the supply
almost no one lives in that area... and the dams were small and silted up , so the acre feet of water they held back was very, very small..please before you post check your facts
The same works for water treatment plant’s! As soon as waste water becomes properly cleaned, nature will fast recover!
The Klamath River is a sewer now. It killed everything in it. Good luck doing ANY Fishing for many decades. The wildlife is suffering. 😢
It's fine Kenny, I was just there yesterday. I saw several trout hitting insects on the surface. The trout are coming down river from upstream, and down tributaries to reinhabit the main stem Klamath. Quit spreading misinformation! You sound silly!
This all based on lies. Do your research. Follow the money, as always.
It's refreshing to know that some humans in the world really do have brains...
Some of us do but not these humans behind this project. Since this project started where fish are dying at record rates, deer and other wildlife are getting stuck in the mud from the destruction of these dams so bad their rotting corpse will be the only thing you smell this spring. It killed tourism for rafters, who knows if they will ever come back. This was not the solution to the problem, it was the sea lions at fault since they've been put on the endangered list.
Yeah this removal project has decimated the wildlife....0 brains were involved.
@@rodeye2 More deer are killed on Siskiyou County's roads every day, than were killed by getting stuck in the muck. You exaggerate! This project is going great. There are already fish moving back into the main stem from upstream and the tributaries. Why so Doom and gloom?
@@milspec8283what do you know about wildlife?
@@georgehaydukeiii6396 that's not true, the sediment killed off thousands of fish. Why the gloom? Because for many reasons, it didn't work out well for the Rogue. The fish haven't returned, it will always look ugly as it does on the rogue, it's usually greed motivated, and it's not addressing the real issue of the declining fish population. You can ask just about any biologist and they will tell you it's the increasing Seal population.
Seems like a fish ladder would be a better choice cal.does need numerous water supplies farms need water too
Pacific corp said it was cheaper to demo than retrofit with fish ladders.
@@johnmedina5399 I think if you read between the lines.. Pacificorp does not want the fight anymore.. Give the Native american's what they want and let someone else deal with the results..
Anyone living there better move. Electricity and drinking water limited. Flood insurance forget it
also the water got to hot for the salmon and other cold water fish.. please do your research first
@@randellgribben9772
Yes,that is the main problem.