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Undamming of the Klamath River brings hopes of renewal
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Native people campaigned for decades to dismantle dams on the Klamath River. They hope the largest dam removal project in history will help save salmon and restore the river's ailing ecosystem, enabling them to keep their fishing traditions alive.
0:00 The fish kill
1:10 We are interconnected
1:48 The ecosystem is in bad shape
3:34 No subsistence fishing
4:45 A monumental undertaking
6:30 We did the impossible
7:32 This year we are celebrating the undamming
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New Zealander here. This is wonderful news!
I followed the undamming of the Elwha River - that was awesome, and now this is happening too!
I've also heard a little bit about possible dam removal on the Columbia River. It would be great to see that happen!
I don't know when that is happening but hopefully soon.
How can you discuss something you know nothing about?
Please stay in your wheelhouse and destroy ur own economy.
Taking the very small dam out of the Elwha is one thing.
Taking large dams out of the Snake and Columbia is ridiculous eco terrorism and will hurt alot more people than it will help .
Aboriginal interests are not more important than everyone else's.
Please Stay in New Zealand .
Taking dams out of a river like the Elwah and taking major dams out of the snake and Columbia are two wildly different things .
@@MrFun222222222 if you're reading comprehension he says that " he heard/read a little bit about a possible dam removal" he doesn't say its gonna be happening, but if you did some research they are busy with one of the 470 Dams in the Columbia River and the Dam removal is about the snake river dam that enters Columbia river (the Snake river enters Washington and flows west to the Columbia River).
Great to see the Klamath being returned to nature. 30 years ago my GF knew a born local who took us up the river on a jet boat and it was awesome. Locals with their fishing nets catching salmon along the banks for some abundant catch. It was the same in E.Wa. at the Methow river. Pools filled with huge fish heading upstream to spawn. 25 years later I went back to the Methow Valley and didn't see any big, red salmon at all. Looking forward to see the Klamath again someday.
The early eighties book "Mountain in the Clouds", the search for wild salmon, tells the story of how these dams got started 130 plus years ago, on the basis of an obscure Federal employee that "allowed" the interpretation of certain statutes. Oberlin grad. and Seattle/post/Intell. journalist. Good read and understanding how this got going; more fish VALUE was destroyed in the northwest that was created by Hydro. But you can CONTROL Hydro; fish are FREE.
It works wonderfully.
I live near the Elwa.
It has been beautiful to watch.
I admire you guys, brilliant work.. Reg
This country has a bad habit of jumping on new ways to make money without considering the consequences. Even at the national level there are rarely any truly long term plans or impact studies beyond a few years. Tragedies like this should not happen. My heart goes out to all the living beings in the eco systems impacted by these decisions. Imagine how much money has been spent creating the dams and removing them, though it is a drop in the bucket of profit made by corporations which benefitted from these decisions. I’m delighted this is taking place and can only hope that as a people we won’t be repeating the mistakes created by this disaster somewhere else.😢😢😢😢😢
Shut up damn hypocrite. You sent her on your computer using electricity which you know not where it comes from or what it takes for you to live the life you live looking down your nose at everything yet it's people like you who are the problem.
Well so far the dam removal has killed over 1 million salmon a few million trout and other fish along with about a billion crawdads, River mussels and everything else that may have lived in the river. A true ecological disaster. The Eco system has been destroyed.
All in attempt to take the water and destroy everything else upstream.
The project has sacrificed the Pacific flyway killing and disrupting millions migratory birds.
Communities and farmers of the Klamath basin are now facing water shortages threatening to up end life in the basin.
Sadly so far the river has become hotter and inhospitable and a death zone to fish that once lived in the river some of which such as the rainbow trout had evolved the tolerate the warm Waters of the Clarence all unemployed to turn the Klamath River into a fish farm, that will not happen.
Thank God we have the indigenous people in all countries to keep us all alive. Not only are they making sure there is a healthy earth for their own coming generations they are fighting to have an earth that all mankind can live in. So different from those people who are so shallow and greedy they can only think of filling their own pockets.
For my birthday, my wife gave me a canoe ride in a dugout with Yurok men. It was one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life. The weather was overcast and the experience was surreal. At that time they were already anticipating the damming. I want to repeat the trip.
As a sidenote, I am wondering if the spelling of the river was with a 'Tl' as in Tlamath. I believe the 'Kl' was easier to spell and pronounce so it wound up becoming 'Klamath.'
There are more instances in native languages across the entire stretch from Chile to the Pacific Northwest where the 'TL' digraph or sound is used: Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Atlin, Coquitlam. Follow that trend south to the Nahuatl languages and south to Chile, and you get an abundance of words with the 'tl sound like Tenochtitlan, Cuscatlan, Atitlan and so on.
I wonder.
I live in Klamath Falls, the start of the Klamath river. Upper Klamath sources this river. It is a fact that the Upper Klamath has had less water going into it than it has exiting it because of drought. When these dams are removed the river will lose half of its flow and will eventually dry up if drought doesn't change in the next decade. Still there will be two dams that will not be torn down at the start of the river. These may be necessary to maintain some water flow. The eco systems that are now established will be destroyed for re-establishing the old one. Good? Bad? In the end, the upper klamath is a terribly toxic watershed and will feed that into a starving river system. Can the river be turned back in time? One hopes. The dams removal is next year and we will see. I am a wait and see person with hopes but based on what we know now, we are not too hopeful for the long life of this river.
You’re so right, the source of the Klamath isn’t California. Klamath Lake and the rivers that feed into it are all part of the entire system. I live in Chiloquin, Klamath Falls and Keno back in the 70s. Fished all around the area. I remember massive fish kills on the lake in the summer when algae gets too abundant. Nobody knows what will occur as a result of this one dam being removed. What I do know is even if all the dams were removed the lakes and rivers are still compromised because we use water in our lives at every level. From drinking it to industrial and commercial uses. That’s not stopping and I’m not saying it should. We do in my view need to stop blaming people from the past for things they did. With out their blood, sweat and tears many of use wouldn’t be here enjoying the cushy life we live today.
I'm working on heading out that way. 3,000 miles from here. The weather is much nicer. Sure hope I can find work.
Now they need to dredge the sediment to fully restore for the wildlife.
The river will flush the sediment by itself. The white salmon river dam removal did that.
The Klamath River and the oceans are so dependent upon that population of salmon globally. The biodiversity and the animals that flourished there are so life dependent upon those fish returning to their homes to spawn. It is Scientifically proven by facts that a dam removal brings back a population to recovery of wild fish. As a passionate fly fisherman and a native American, I unfortunately witnessed that moment on the Klamath River when President Bush shut down the flow of water to save it for the agricultural industry. I have never witnessed such a gross authority of power in my life , thousands and thousands of salmon, steelhead, and silvers all tragically met with death , I walked the river only to see with my eyes death of multiple generations. It was the worst thing I have ever seen. That system is a major key to life on this planet. Do not ignore the future of our fisheries, free that river, free the river , let life return, protect what you love. I feel they should shut down the all fishing for 4 to 8 years. Let those populations come back .
congratulations!
Good news! ❤
There is a passage in the end Egyptian book of the dead that reads(whoa on to the man that would divert the rivers course) So this is ancient knowledge
Let’s share some credit with American Rivers.
When these kinds of rivers are dammed, or partially diverted into canals, the river can no longer care for its people. Now that the Klamath is being restored by removing fish-blocking dams, the river can care for its people.
Removing the man made dams and restoring the natural ecosystem is an amazing development that is affecting the way that people view their surroundings and hopefully changing ideas.
Really good news, we need more positive things to be proud of. The earth is our Mother stop abusing her, it hurts you also when you do.
Well done 👍
I studied geology at Humboldt State University (now called Cal Poly Humboldt), and one of my favorite things to do was drive up to Klamath and buy smoked salmon from the indigenous people. So yummy 😋
We traveled to the Klamath River to speak with Indigenous people who campaigned for the removal of four hydroelectric dams. The work of removing the dams has begun, and members of the Yurok Tribe say they are hopeful that tearing down dams will begin a process of restoring the river and saving its salmon.
Except that global warming is expected to drive most salmon to extinction. But at least we will have a few more fish for a few more years. So what if removing hydroelectric power accelerates global warming, global warming is not important.
@@JohnAllerton1977 Except global warming is a lie also!!
And so what did the Klamath say about the Hoopa Nation being included in this salmon renewal? All the streams going up to the plateau have their fish intercepted by the Klamath claiming ALL the fish, and using nets across ALL the streams, denying a fellow First Nation access to fish!! Time for an ATTITUDE change on everyone's part.
@@JohnAllerton1977 it would take DECADES for salmon runs to return, esp. wild salmon that imprint on their stream according to size/weight. Even in BC salmon renewal is checked by Alaska fishermen intercepting Canadian fish that are threatened. Grabbing hands grab all they can.
would love to visit in the future and hopefully see some salmon
I like the idea of removing the dams on the Klamath. I use to live in Klamath Falls back in the 70s. I love the idea of letting the river do what it does without mans assistance. I don’t like everyone blaming those from the past or taking credit for things as no group can claim responsibility as many were involved in putting them in place and taking them down. They also didn’t build these with the goal to do harm and it’s easy to judge. Nobody gets it right all the time. This world is very complex and it’s easy to criticize. Unfortunately those who do should be the first to reject the benefits derived from what they oppose. None do this. So here’s to the Klamath returning to what it once was. Nature will do the hard work if we just get out of the way.
Thank you Indians, live with nature.😊
I was born in Del Norte 61 years ago I used to go up the Glen to dip net candlefish AKA Eulechon .
As far as i know they are gone until they are restored also the klamath will never be whole.
It was hard for me to support the Yakima Tribe and Salmon issues when I personally witnessed, as a local, piles and piles of salmon rotting in tribal peoples garages with no intention of smoking, canning etc. they just exercised their rights to Salmon quotas with no intentions of preservation for food. It was truly heart breaking to see such a waste
Definitely not genocide but glad to see the river return 🙌
So what happens now the dam is gone it was built years ago will it be the same for the return of the salmon and water?
Decades to get fish runs back to where they were before these dams were built 100 plus years ago. Dams DESTROYED more value in fish than they created in electricity, but of course, fish are free: hydro you can control, and then bill for. !
@@user-zp7jp1vk2ieyeroll... so you live 100% off-grid? And you don't use any corporately created products? Do you realize how much power RUclips draws on a global scale? RUclips is part of the Google corporation. You're ALWAYS feeding the corporate beast... from wiping your rear end to pretending to be virtuous on social media.
One dam was removed, the other three (!) are coming out in 2024. They've been gathering thousands of pounds of seeds from native plants to repair the riverbanks. It's a process, and thankfully the folks doing it have a plan.
The river flowing free is just the start it will take a while but it will slowly return to what it was ,
You guys have my full support to remove these dams. My ancestor's really screwed up. Their arrogance really astounds me.
Recent dam removals elsewhere on the Pacific coast have demonstrated that fish and pre-dam ecosystems quicky re-establish themselves. Within 5 years of removal, life and geology will come back strong.
I love the Klamath River. I have spent more time fishing on the trinity, but that is because that was as far as I could make it comfortably in one day's driving up from San Luis Obispo.
I posted this on another video recently, but think it is worth repeating. The Klamath River restoration will never be complete without also restoring streams and beaver habitat. The beavers will store water that will replenish groundwater supplies, create ideal habitat for birds, fish, and other animals, and will provide fresh water to the river in the summer months. The removal of dams without that stream restoration will fail to improve water quality or to decrease water temperatures and algae blooms in the summertime because there will not be enough freshwater flow. The beavers are a keystone species. The rivers need them to survive.
It will happen just like it is in Idaho.
Also predators so trees and river banks aren't over-grazed. But limit them.
Do you know that beavers *aren't* part of the plan?
I do know that the Karuk tribe has done some wonderful work on stream restoration that will certainly be of benefit to beavers, otters, and other wildlife, but I do not think that anyone is actively working on restoring beaver habitat along the Klamath River or its tributaries. However, there is active beaver restoration happening in other areas around the country (and world). @@Korina42
Are there consequences for people spitting and calling slurs?
I just wonder how these people survived a 200+ year drought and then another 150+ year drought around 850 - 1100 AD? Surely a 200+ year drought would have either dried up the river or made it only a trickle. How did the salmons survive going for so long without water?
with no commercial fishing, the salmon would more easily recover.
What all the nylon nets ,that’s not traditional fishing ,
Too many Liberty Mutual ads. I am boycotting them
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For millions of years the fish could apparently climb glaciers. Amazing!
Such great news!
Well done😊
Gold mining via dredging needs to be illegal in the Klamath too.
Dredging is illegal in California.
Do you know since when? I used a suction dredge in the Klamath River near Happy Camp in the early 1990s@@CANNABISfreedomNOtaxes
With only removing 4 of the 6 dams how will the water quality be improved much? Klamath Lake isn't even safe for people to swim and is regularly closed to swimming.
The 4 dams being removed play a huge part in keeping the river too warm. The many cold water tributaries below klamath lake will actually be able to cool the river down instead of flowing into 4 more warm reservoirs.
If only they could remove all. Farmers in the basin will fight that to death.
I wonder how many billions of dollars it costs to replace the dams with wind power for the day and nuclear ⚛ power for night plus the desalination plants for the lost water 💦? Just think of all the global warming undamming will cause.
Undamming rivers is an incredibly stupid idea. Not surprising this is in California
Thank you, Native People, for stepping up, for keeping your Voice after all that you have been put through for centuries, your people were thoughtlessly brought down as the salmon were thoughtlessly brought down, to near extinction. Your Voice has remained to teach us “modern” folk. the Way to live on this precious Earth. We are sorry for our ignorance, we looked toward electricity not toward damage… and we are grateful for your strength and Loving Hearts.
The list of ecological disasters Americans have wrought is shameful. Damns are just one. Bison eradication, clear cuts of old growth forests. It’s endless.
Dam haters need to go without water from reservoirs and deal with potential flooding.
As seen with the Rapidan dam, these very old dams cannot be ignored. Many are silted up and no longer work as flood control. I like dams but over the last 150 years a lot of dams are obsolete and need to be dealt with.
@@steven4315 Maintenance is cheaper than replacement, but it won't get you reelected.
@@patmcbride9853 In a lot of cases, the dams are obsolete. The Rapidan dam reservoir is completely silted up. Mechanically removing the silt would be a monumental task.
@@steven4315 Looks like it was pretty easy for Mother Nature to do it.
@@patmcbride9853 Yep, river cut a new channel. Gonna take a few years for the silt to be moved downriver.
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Let's get one thing straight your people have not been there since the beginning of time
Eye quite agree! Just remove the dam!!😊😊❤
I am so proud of everyone involved in tearing down the Dams. At the mouth, the salmon were so thick, it was fabled that you could walk across the mouth on the backs of the salmon. Every year after the Dams, the fish dwindled. Fish shouldn't have to figure out what a fish ladder is.
Why are they not taking out Keno Dam or Link River Dam? It being a free flowing river is a lie.
Oh, give me a break.
Feed the people! Undam every river and free the land from this. All my life in the northeast I wished I could go for Atlantic salmon and shad. Whites wrote that they could take a pair of snowshoes and walk over the Susquehanna River on the backs of fish runs.
This is a reminder that it wasn't just about controlling the river it was about controlling the indigenous people.
Bet that electricity will be generated on another river
Story is being poorly told
Oh honey, they don't raise their young. They die shortly after spawning.
So with this being said. How about more clean energy. The river gave us that. So let's see what's next. Hope they thought this through
You’ve not been following this story for very long, have you?
The republicans are cursing the restoration of this majestic river. What does that tell you?
All fun and games until the flooding starts
everyone is hopefull, but there are no guarantees. Other rivers have been undammed and they didn't produce native trout or salmon. And so far with the release of all these sediments it has killed fish. Long run is still a 'maybe'
You really have no idea what you're talking about do you? Well it shows! Do some more research. Read some of the scientific, peer-reviewed papers on this project. Don't believe everything you see on RUclips and here down at the tavern.
marks is a wacko
Build Nuclear power plants and you won't need hydro
Rod only no netting spearing and snagging fish ladders
Can’t wait for everyone there who’s cheering this, start complaining when their power bills go through the roof and brown/blackouts start occurring due to lack of available power generation. And no, those bird killing wind turbines won’t cover the loss….especially when there’s no wind! 😂
Love these dam removals. Heal the earth.
And HOPEFULLY the Klamath Nation will ALLOW salmon to get up to the Hoopa Plateau instead of running their nets across all the stream runs, and taking ALL the fish??? Time for a change, all right. Overdue for a change in ATTITUDE.
Projecting much?
They stopped fishing entirely to preserve what was there.
Your post is damn close to libel, insinuating that the First Nations are the greedy ones.
well so much for water to use fighting wildfires. how much oil will be needed to replace the power this dam produced. how about drawing less water from the Co river... like the other states have done.
The younger ones do not know how the river flooded when it ran wild…& the salmon are Scarce some years because the tribes at the mouth of the River are dynamite the salmon to make money from canning! Over Use of gillnetting also contributes to the problem! When the river runs over tribal lands destroying their homes they’ll wish they had listened to the elders! To them it’s a victory over the white mans intrusions onto their lands! So be it…all that fresh water gone as most of Cal suffers from Serious droughts!
Thanks for sharing your ignorance
The govt agencies in charge of stocking hatchery salmon need to do more work. They have only focused on raising and releasing one of the 5 Pacific species, the lowest value ones in all cases, and this is having an unbalanced effect on the ecosystem. It has benefited tribes with salmon traditions (better than nothing) but in the long run causing unpredictable effects
What happens if global warming stops salmon from reproducing in the KlKlamath. Then it becomes a matter of green energy first and salmon second.
Get rid of the dams!!!
congrats to getting this removed.
the snake river should be undammed
The next river to un dam should be the Columbia!
Creator knew what he was doing….
Only man is arrogant enough to think they know better.🪶