Return to Us: Restoring Alaska’s Eklutna River
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2020
- This film tells the story of The Conservation Fund's partnership with the Alaska Native Village of Eklutna to remove a deadbeat dam and restore Pacific salmon. For more information visit: www.conservationfund.org/proj....
I don’t know why RUclipss algorithm has directed me to all the dam demolitions videos but it’s wonderful.. I feel like I’m watching an “Earth Healing” taking place.. so many. It’s wonderful. Love hearing all the stories from those that are affected to those that helped undertake the demo to those that remember hearing from their families how it used to be. I hope there are updates of how it’s going over the years of rehabilitation
bc they want to distract u from all the dams and parking lots getting build replacing nature
Same lol
@@user-zb7fc1rf5w We haven't built a dam in the US since about 1980 and I don't know of any parking lots that wiped out salmon habitat.
They're watching what you watch for the government , don't think they are not ! True story !!! 😳😬
Obligatory engagement comment for the Algorithm.
These river restorations are a glimmering light in a bleak world.
These dam removal documentaries are one of the few things that makes me feel positive about the future.
And we replace the energy deficiency with fossil fuels?
@@jacob94s10 nuclear
@jacob94s10 Most of them have been abandoned for many years.
The amount the sediment moved in the explosion clip is insane.
amazing video! I hope that the waters of the Eklutna will one day run again
How wonderful to hear of a victory and restoration of our Mother 🌎. TY to all those who worked so hard to bring back the Eklutna!
Great to see dams coming down ! And the salmon come back , outstanding ! 👌✔️
Fantastic! Bring down the dams, let rivers flow free and the salmon return
Many won't be anytime soon sadly, we've become dependent on them for farming, etc. The Columbia of Pacific North West had so many salmon runs you could harvest them yr around I'm told.
Salmon are a beautiful fish.
Except they took the dam down just to re dam it with a berm lol
Dams are the solution to clean energy and drought prevention. What we need is more studies on compromising with the salmon and other fish.
@@Mrbfgray if we brought back beavers, and removed all dams, we would have salmon runs back within ten years. They need a good decade of reproduction and their numbers would skyrocket. Problem is, I heard the reason so many have been dying off is because the run off has been carrying some chemical that’s in car tires into the rivers, and it causes death
We the people. Thank you for all that you do...
I can’t explain why I feel emotional about releasing a river and healing what was done without understanding and powered by greed…
BEAUTIFUL story of hope and live! Undam them all!
So gratifying to see. Now, for the Snake and Columbia dams.
And restore the Arial sea
Bonneville needs to go
I'm with you but the Columbia dams, as tragic as they are, will be damn tough to reverse, farming and cities depend on them.
The Columbia dams have been great investments and provide flood control, irrigation, and clean renewable energy. The economic value of these benefits exceeds the value of the fish many times over. The fish are still there and can co-exist with the dams. Leave the dams alone and continue to study ways to improve the fish passage.
If the Lower Snake dams come out the Salmon have chance.
Yes , irrigators get their water , Wheat going to Market go on rail instead of barge.
Do they plan on passing buckets over the larger damn forever? The removal of the smaller damn didn't do much as there's another larger damn upstream blocking all the water
I remember when the lake was just about full before Anchorage built that big waterline along the Glenn Highway.
I've never understood how companies were allowed to just abandon structures when they were done using them. When you're done, you take it down. Why do the people always have to fight and pay for the cleanup?
Its called 'externalizing costs'. Its a capitalist term for leaving others to pay your bills. As a capitalist you are always trying to see how you can externalize (ie: put on someone else) a cost (something that loses you money'). All of this in order to maximize profits.
Know thy enemy.
@@futurecaredesign but they of course always want you to to pay their bills during as well.
@@futurecaredesign you act like other economic plans don't do the same thing. Abandoning stuff is just easier in every way. Chernobyl, Detroit, the great wall of china. Its just called archeology otherwise.
Happens all the time. In Halifax there is petroleum storage facility abandoned and I fully expect the tanks have sludge. So, once again, the taxpayers will ultimately clean it up.
You could have a levy they have to pay before they start, but then they will just go somewhere else. A multinational corporation is an entity onto itself, designed to avoid regulation and responsibility. They should never been allowed. However, when a gov't steps to try to stop this type of thing, they are called job killers. We get the world we deserve.
Socialism is alive and well in America. Profits are always privatized while costs are socialized whenever possible.
Great work
We farm salmon incorrectly.
If they were slimy eels that no one ate or cared about I don't think dams and riparian water sheds would be as much of a concern. But these are SALMON.
It's so bad today that over 50% of our annual consumption of salmon comes from farm raised fish fed on cat food with dye added to make the meat look like salmon meat. It completely lacks the nutritional profile of a wild salmon. it's crap fish, tilapia.
the proper way to farm a fish that is anadromous is to supercharge the entirety of the watershed with micro hatchery efforts.
As riparian habitat is reclaimed (by the removal of a dam for instance), we must leverage our technology to the salmon's benefit. What I mean by this is rather than just open up the water way and allow the salmon to repopulate the upper watershed spawning grounds naturally, which could take centuries to fully recharge the run, use the technology of a mitigation hatchery to select wild fish for fertilizing / hatching out to the alevin stage (egg sack attached) and then release them high up in the natal spawning grounds of the water shed.
Here's a good example of what Im talking about. Say you have a valuable (culturally and $$$) spring run of kings that is 'present' in the river, but not strong. They're only spawning in one tributary of 3 possible tributaries in the watershed.
So, use nets or a water wheel to siphon off a hundred pairs of fish to select for reseeding one of the other tributaries in order to bolster the run. (you'll net around a million fertilized eggs) Spawn them out artificially in a mitigation hatchery but get them into the proposed natal spawning grounds of the unused tributary as soon as they are hatched out, before you anesthetize them, jam a wire in their nose and clip a fin. minimal human handling!
You'll have to repeat this effort for a full cycle (4 years) to establish the run in that tributary, but now more fish are making use of the riparian environment and the total run should grow stronger.
Repeat with other species and with the remainder of the tributaries that will support a spawning salmon within the water shed. (streams and such)
One species helps the other. The issue with salmon spawning beds silting in is not an issue of logging roads but rather a lack of a million pairs of salmon tails excavating the gravel beds to MAKE them suitable for egg laying and fertilization. So, chum salmon, coho, pinks etc, while not as marketable as a king are equally important to the upper riparian environment. Their tails help the creation and maturation of spawning beds high up in the river watershed. Their eggs and fry and smolts all become part of the larger riparian food chain that is so important to growing large healthy salmon prior to their journey to the sea.
Can you have too many salmon return to a river? how long do you want to wait to realize your recovery efforts? Opening up a river with no further human interaction is the slowest possible path to restoration that you can take. We need to intelligently leverage our technology to supercharge these natural salmon nurseries.
that's how salmon farming should be done moving forward. It will benefit everyone, the tribes, the commercial guys, the recreational fishermen, the salmon and the riparian habitat that will benefit from actually having marine resources reach high up into the river system again.
Thanks for reading
salmon&trout have been in these rivers, Long before man.....
So beautiful
How the salmon gonna get past thunderbird falls? 🤷♂️.
Thunderbird Falls is a separate branch
thats not on the river rather a tributary creek you could have just looked on a map
We've shown over and over again that tidal turbines and wind turbines CAN replace hydro-electric dams and diversions without relying on natural gas and coal backups. The problem is making it more cost effective to use these lower impact generation sources for the major companies, rather than sticking to their current "cheap" solutions.
Wind turbines cause changing weather patterns thus destroying the area it resides in. Look up the damage along the Columbia River.
Also, they account for massive losses of endangered birds. Did you know the feds allow companies to kill eagles, Hawks, condors, etc to protect the turbines?
@@mikewhitman830 Did you know you're an idiot? Did you know that turbines can't capture more than 60% of the wind energy that directly hits the turbine blades, even in the best conditions, while not impacting the flow of any air that DOESN'T hit the turbine blade? Did you know that the number of birds killed by turbines is barely more than .02% the number killed by domestic and feral cats each year? Did you know that conservatard, republicunt talking points like yours are so easy to debunk that it's painfully annoying to have to do it on such a regular basis because you dips don't ever want to actually look at the real numbers yourselves?
@@hellcat1988
I dig the psychotic rant you posted. Name calling, degrading comments, and lumping someone (who you know nothing about) into a category. Personally, I think your just passionate and misguided.
Here is one link to the studies ans issues addressed with wind turbines.
www.energy.gov/eere/wind/environmental-impacts-and-siting-wind-projects
Here is another from Wikipedia (not a trusted source)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_wind_power.
I like the reference to one article written by the Insider though. I gave you two. One from the government and one from a very liberal source. BOTH state the impact turbines have on birds, land, etc. The studies done and solutions implemented and being developed. If you'd like to look more like a self indulging moron I can obliged.
Good day.
@@mikewhitman830 Good job. You just proved my argument that the impact on the environment and bird deaths is negligible when compared to fossil fuel power generation all on your own.
🤣 Before: Man made dams and constructions disrupt nature and should be removed
After: lets put man made structures in the ocean.
What a time we are in. Trying to shut down electrical power generators while we try and switch all of our vehicles to electricity, and deny nuclear power plants at the same time as well. I hope there's enough cobalt to go around for everybody. Probably not likely.
With any luck the wokesters will be the FIRST ones to experience the inevitable week-long blackouts. Will serve them right, dimwits.
Did they take the dam down then build a berm to then re dam the river?
They didn't? The berm/earthen dam is upstream of the concrete dam. The next step they want is to start releasing some water from the earthen dam so the lower stream can be at least partially restored for salmon runs, etc.
Amazing, I wish be part of these solutions 💕
hook a hose up big enough for fish n pipe water back to the river!!
Just curious. How did they replace the power generation lost?
It wasn't producing electricity anymore. They have a new one farther upstream.
goodluck for kaliwa dam in the Philippines lol
You drive right by that power station north of Anchorage
Isn't that the water reserved for Anchorage? Has a glacier right?
Yes and Yes. I live a mile from the eklutna river and yes we have a glacier less than 20 min from my house, we get ALL of our water from eklutna lake not the river. This stunt was a pr move and nothing more. When the natives want more money they sell off their land then bitch about it later. Dont feel sorry for them
🙏🙏
What did the bucket brigade accomplish? Was it purely symbolic as in ' let's get the water flowing again! ' ?
Seems like a pump would have been better, but I must have missed something.
It was symbolic
Yeah, THEY missed something, like engaging their brains.
We took the damn off of the dowagiac Creek at pucker st in Niles Michigan and it's going to be a primer trout stream. It was before but it's going to be better.
Great history and wonderful story
Any talk by the conservationist on how to replace the power? And no, wind and solar won't solve it.
If u watch one, they will send u a 100!
Oil/power companies come in and give them a few bucks and they don't know they sold away their land's sole. Still happening and residents are happy with their couple thousand dollars a year.
put some b52s to this and it's the best.
Wtf was that ? A couple of buckets of water? Never heard of a pump some hoses geez
Return the waters to nature.
I've never seen so many arrogant, self-righteous individuals as I have in the comments of these dam demolition videos..
What about using beavers? Is that possible? Their dams purify water, make ponds and are not an obstacle to the salmon since they can leap over.
90% of water goes to producing 3% of electricity
YEARS GREAT USE OF WATER
I question what finacial organizations and politics are being played in the background that will come to the surface as we approach 2027.
the power companies and their gumnt flunkies are trying to find a way around their duty to get water back into that river. don't let them get away with that.
Blow up the tunnel
Everyone complaining about the damn. But non of them turn of the power at home.
That power station is dam near useless or did you not watch the video?
As a pure capitalist I can say this is not worth it the power company to continue to operate. The little amount of money generated vs the impact to your reputation is a no brainer. The state itself needs to push this project along. The revenue brought by the fish far outways the pittance generated by the dam.
To the power company,
Do yourself a favor and voluntarily shut down the plant. It's worth it.
It is upsetting to think these utilities are paying dividends to people living in gated communities down South.
Dams have a limited lifespan. Look at the siltation built up behind that dam. Returning highly productive waters like the Elwha River in Washington are an obvious first step and higher priority. The smaller rivers/hydro units become case by case. Yes, everyone wants to see more salmon and steelhead. Everyone also likes having electricity when they flip on the switch.
Dam in poland stopped salmon travel to slovakian high tatras... and government do not care.
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Save the rivers, save the world...
The river belongs to all ,not the power companies, time to evict them.
Woah unto the man that would divert the river's course( Egyptian Book of the Dead)
This feels like a luxury belief. It is easy to complain about hydropower and drinking water when you have water to drink and power to keep it from freezing in the tap. I would ask the pioneer generation if they thought that tearing down infrastructure represented a step forward or a step back? What about the workers of today who make modern life possible? The goal here is not to tear down an already-defunct dam, but to convince the audience that the environmental preferences of people who probably do not work in industrial sectors should take precedence over drinking water and electricity.
Find a cheap, carbon-neutral alternative, or stop trying to destroy the infrastructure you benefit from.
Remove them all! In this day and age we do not need the dams,but it would be nice to be able to catch and eat a nice salmon once in awhile!
Yes we do need dams
Dams are the Devil! But once removed it's amazing how quickly salmon and other river species and habit return! If mother earth is given a chance? She quickly forgets and forgives man's follies! And gets backs to what she does best! Creating a habit that's substantial that benefits both nature & mankind!
I miss the dam
Only provides 3% of the local grid's power?! Why is there even a discussion, get that 3% from somewhere else. Heck, work to improve the rest of the grid's efficiency to cover that 3%!
And, do off channel storage for the water it supplies.
save carbon from generator to ruining a whole ecosystem great job. Nothing clean about this if it needed a 4 mile drill maybe it needed more planning.
People need to be more open to change. We have the technology to move away from hydroelectric power.
That's right. We have the full capability to return to the stone-age. Not that I'd expect a bunch of wimpy wokesters to survive in the post-electric world.
I have strong reason to believe they have been there much longer than 15,000 years... Think more like x2, minimum.
Just because you believe 4 + 4 is 10 doesn't make it true
Oil will always be here, intermittent power wind and solar won't cut it. Every year we have more people, thus more energy needs. If everyone in THE US today had an electric car, there is not enough power generating capacity to run all autos.
Have the villains at the power company done the right thing and return water to the river yet?
Eklutna is where Robert Hansen left many of his victims...The areas is forever cursed.
Build nukes, leave the environment alone.
The US Government could give a rat's ass about the people. Thank all of you that care about what really matters to all the people. Dam removal is a new beginning that corrects the grave mistakes of the past... "We the People"...
Esperamos en europa que nos dejen utilizar el gas Ruso, para poder recuperar una ecología y que los intereses económicos, de USA y su hambre de poder, nos dejen implementar políticas medioambientales más inteligentes y regenerativas. Y amenazar con guerras y provocaciones en europa y asia, no es el camino.
they should take down every dam n let the land go back to wat it was, the way God made it!!
I thought god made man and everything was part of god's plan.
What really happened was Eklutna wanted more money. It's not about the salmon at all. Most folks in that area shop at 3 bears. I've lived close by for well over 30 years. I know what it's all about to Denaina. $$$$$$.
Criminal that a " for profit Corporation & Privately owned", could steal Indian land & kill a Salmon River. Imo.
Lmfao 🙃
Lmfao omg please stop ✋ the victimhood
What about the tailrace? Gonna kill the last spot in the valley to even fish. This state sucks. They closed all the rivers for king salmon and they haven’t opened in 8 years even though tons of fish come back. They don’t care about salmon for the river and sport fisherman only for commercial fishing. This whole state is owned by oil, commercial fishing and tourism.
King Salmon are finished! There are fewer every year that make it back. Once pebble mine opens up it will finish off the rest of them
Fish Monger deshka has a good run this year 🤷♂️
I'll just say, if the ancestors of these native people in 1700 or 1800 had the technology to dam and power their homes this river would have been dammed for 200-300 years already. Should this be fixed? Sure. If there are other power sources available, absolutely. I just hate that people act like native people chose to keep the land respected. They just legit didn't have the numbers or the technology to interact with their environment in the same way we do now.
Arron looks.....ummmmm......
Can someone tell your native people, that the restoration of a river nowadays, is not primary done, for the fact, that they don't wanna spend money on food, and that's why they were crying the last 100 years, for every river that disappeared in use for Dams😉😅🤣 And their " Holly Salmon". But hey, I'll stuck a round fire water for all of them 👍😁🤣🤣
Natural gas "emissions"? 🤣🇺🇸
I’m just curious why they were using buckets 🪣 was it ceremonial?
No, it's because none of the wokesters are clever or intelligent enough to operate a pump.