Then the reintroduction of Beaver into the smaller streams and tributaries will help hold water and build up the steady state watershed. It's such a great thing to see the region return to it's past health.
Beaver dams slow and warm the water and trap sediment. I would love to see some long term data on their effects. I don't think they are the positive you think they are.
I live in Shelton 90 miles south of the Elwah. My county took out our small dam on Goldsborough Creek. This is no small undertaking. The habitat needs to be rebuilt. Many trees and native plants planted and replanted until they are well established. It was pretty ugly for awhile, but now I can walk a couple miles from my home and find wildwater; the best kind. I was honored to help with the restoration of Nalley Island on the Skokomish Land. Volunteers can really help make a big project smaller.
Progress is measured in many ways. Some consider the building of dams to be progress. Some consider their removal as progress. It fills my heart with joy to see these rivers, restored. To see the hard work of the lovers of nature, the salmon, the forests, and the wildlife thriving is wonderful. Jack
I've been to this place many times before and after the dam removal. I'd recommend people who visit Seattle make it a point to visit the area above the removed dams. It's amazing how quickly it's reclaimed itself.
I was reminded of a grad student I knew at Oregon State who was working to sequence the DNA of salmon in all the rivers that flow from the Coast Range. He was involved over an argument between fishermen and conservationists: in a river that was being restored the fishermen wanted salmon brought in from hatcheries to repopulate rapidly while the conservationists wanted the native salmon to repopulate naturally. His work showed just how genetically distinct the populations in different streams were, including all the tributary streams, which enabled the wildlife people to start a program of the different hatcheries propagating not just whatever population they could easily get eggs from but keeping the offspring from each stream separate and always taken back to the stream they came from.
I hope the native Americans here do not start a large, modern, commercial fishing business just to make a lot of money. For decades on the lower Klamath River in California, a non-native American person would marry a native American woman, and buy a huge jet boat and big modern nets to catch thousands of salmon to sell commercially. These are facts you might not like to hear but I fished the Klamath River for over 50 years. The dams, logging, developments, AG and commercial fishing all played their part in the destruction of the anadromous fisheries, worldwide.
Was forest biologist forOlympic National Forest during fight to remove dam. Sooo happy to see this marvelous portrait of habitat rejuvenation. Awesome opportunity for intensive monitoring to spur future dam removals.
I lived on the Oregon/Idaho border, where the snake river was the dividing line between the two states. As an Oregon resident the Salmon and Steelhead fishing was closed due to low returns, however Idaho kept the Salmon and Steelhead fishing season open due to their right to fish those fish regardless of the fish numbers decline. These efforts to take down the dams are the first step to restore the fisheries in the areas. The next step is to get All of the states to act as one in restoration. Washington state and Oregon state, and parts of California can't be the only ones to take the restorations seriously. Idaho also needs to be on board and restrict the fishing of these fish in order to fully restore the fisheries.
Pretty sure the coastal states have the Most "responsibility" when it comes to this. Seeing as the fish are coming from the ocean. By the time the fish have made it to Idaho and the likes I think the major obstacles have been overcome.
@@leegoddard2618- so there are no dams in Idaho? Other states should close their fishing seasons to allow more fish to reach Idaho, spawn, and increase fish numbers so that Idahoans can fish unabated? The fisheries will recover much faster for everyone IF Idaho does it’s fair share.
This is a great video on the importance of removing old technology that disrupted nature. Working with nature instead of against it is the only way humanity can continue to grow. The narrator is excellent, very smooth voice.
Very inspiring! I'm hopeful that after the four dams on the Klamath River are removed the benefits will be positive as well. Next hopefully are the dams along the lower Snake River.
Love seeing how much it has changed. I was out there a couple years after the dams were removed and it's fantastic to see how much it has changed and grown!
This makes my cry with enthusiasm for our salmon, salmon are indeed our miners canary, they go extinct we go extinct, nothing but praise for your efforts. GODS SPEED.
So inspiring! I used to work on the Salmon River in Idaho, which is part of the Columbia River drainage. There's a salmon restoration project underway there too, and I hope the dam removals downstream come to pass so Idaho can become truly rich in nutrients and fish again!
I grew up in area and remember the debates/arguments we had in high school, the early 80's, and all the nay sayers. Their biggest argument against dam removal was that "it would never recover, so just let it be." Nature will find away if just left alone. Since the removal the Elwha Clallam have had a resurgence of pride for who they were, are and will become as a group.
I was a student at Peninsula College when there was a studium generale with the pro’s and con’s stating their cases. And now, the beauty, knowledge, and experience
I like how so far in this series, each episode focuses on a creature classified as a keystone species. So far, the Red Woodpecker, Beaver, and now Salmon. Incredible.
No. We need hydropower, which is mostly carbon-free electricity. Getting rid of old dams that don't generate a lot, but hurt the environment is tolerable, but not ALL of them. I'm off to find videos on hydropower.
This is a beautiful documentary and I hope many people view this. Years ago I saw the first pictures that were taken of Native Americans who lived on the River and the Salmon that were their lives. The pictures had been colorized and the red Salmon meat drying in the sun seemed to be miles long. It truly was a spectacular sight. The Salmon are the ecosystem. Salmon DNA was found in the trees from Bears who leave the half eaten fish to decay in the soil. The return of Salmon will bring the return of wildlife. Every thing will change and this is the Earth healing. The Dipper birds are fascinating. They dive into the coldest water and "fly" through the strongest currents to feed. Watching the dam blow up was awesome. Imagine the feeling that gentleman had pushing the detonator!!! Kinda envious 😅 I hope that in ten year's time or so, another documentary update is made on the River and its' ecosystem. Thank you for this documentary ‼️🥰
The 190 million beavers removed from the system since european introduction has had a dramatic effect on the strength and robustness of our wetland environments. Natural vs man made dams are anight and day went talking about the ecology they support.
I love your comment. I am a big advocate of beaver habitat restoration. Few have any idea how many beavers were in North America, or anything about the wetlands they created across the continent. Their value to our environment cannot be overstated.
I'm so happy for the people who started this and made it a huge success. It was a great education for me as well. I love smoked salmon and used to catch limits of 3 often. As a community of people who have counted on the salmon for generations to see this completed must be a dream come true. I'm so happy for them.
Hiked this basin before and after. Some dams have benefits that can balance the costs, but not on the Elwah. The mouth of the river has been completely transformed for the better.
I love this series, lets us know if we work together, trust scientists and indigenous peoples' and realize that humans cannot control nature but can nurture and assist it, anything is possible. It all seems so hopeless most of the time and any optimism seems quaint and almost naive but seeing this series is great to see REAL possible change for the better with quantifiable results, metrics that prove the results. Hope without logic is just a dream, to combine hope with work, logic and community is where hope becomes reality. Everything is impossible until it's not.
I grew up on the Kitsap Peninsula. I hiked the Olympic Press Trail when I was a kid in the early '80's. We ended up at Elkhorn on the Elwah. Some beautiful country.
This is an amazing story and a great accomplishment, yet it is just one (large) step in the restoration of the river. The streams and creeks that feed the river must also be protected and restored, allowing beavers to create dams and wetlands that will feed fresh water to the river during the drier summer months. If we are serious about restoring rivers and fish, we must protect and preserve our rivers from the headwaters to the sea. The cost of this will be extremely high, but the benefits will far outweigh the costs.
Thank you! I really enjoyed getting to see and learn about this beautiful part of the United States that I have never visited. God blessed us with a beautiful country, a beautiful planet, and the life He created in it will thrive and renew itself if we just give it a chance.
this is awesome! i live in new hampshire and my town voted last year to remove a dam that was installed in the 1600s, i'm so excited to see the effects it has on the environment. atlantic salmon populations have been in decline for centuries here so hopefully they'll have a similar restoration story to those in the pacific northwest!
i grew up in northern Washington I've been there when the dam was still there...I'm so happy to see it gone...not the rest of them need to be taken down.
in BC, and BC Hydro has more than 80 dams across the province. in my Town: Campbell River has 3 on the same river alone. With the technology we have in this day and age, we dont needs dams for Hydroelectricity, Flow generators, and tidal flow generators are producing as much or more power than dams from the days past.
Having grown up in Washington, I have seen the salmon populations returning in limited numbers but the work is not done. Seattle City light is fighting local tribes to keep many dams in place. I hope the local tribes can overcome these companies.
I live blocks away from the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. We have three lock and dams that are still owned and somewhat operational by the US Army Corps. They are in the process of deciding what to do with them since barge traffic is no longer coming up this far in the river. Our situation is different than the Pacific Northwest, since we don’t have the keystone specie migration up here. Actually, the dams and St. Anthony falls are serving an important function keeping the invasive Asian Carp out of the more northern stretches of the river. We also have a couple of modest sized hydro power facilities on the dams. I canoe and kayak these waters and am conflicted over what is to be done. Whatever is decided, I hope it’s the best thing for the ecosystem, long term. The progress in the PNW in dam removal is just so wonderful, I’ve watch a number of these documentaries and it is amazing to see nature restores its self when given the chance. I’m also so happy for the native communities that have their heritage restored. Folks are working on similar programs with the bison here in Minnesota, though they are tiny compared to the historic range of the animals.
@@robertlee8805 the US Fish and Wildlife service is studying them and their advancement up the rivers. The biggest threat is in the Chicago Sanitary Canal. There they have a high voltage electric barrier in the channel. If the carp make it into Lake Michigan, there will be nothing to stop them from taking over all the Great Lakes and threatening a large commercial fishery that already suffered heavy metal poisoning and Sea Lamprey, as well as other invasive. The carp are a marketable fish, the challenge is making it a profitable industry.
It’s so gratifying to see these dams come down and these ecosystems being restored. I remember watching the documentary DamNation when it first came out. That documentary first informed me about the catastrophic impact dams caused to fish and wildlife. I can’t believe it’s already been 10 years since then. I’m really hoping more dams come down and more ecosystems are restored.🌲🐟🦌
I wish it was this simple where I live, here we have pollution killing our river and our eels (basically what salmon are to you) my great grandfather used to survive off the river back when we still lived in simple dirt huts but sadly later in life when eels already almost all disappeared and pollution was at its highest (the 70's) it was also what killed him, he died of a rare type of cancer.
Ahhh man, I am so excited and so happy that this is happening! I mean don't get me wrong dams had their place back in the day but it's definitely time for them to go. Thank you for making and sharing this content °~•.☆.•~°
It's good to see native peoples (who weren't consulted, moved off their land and are traditionally marginalised) get their rivers back and to see nature being restored
Seeing the river restored is a beautiful thing. Good work. Question, with the loss of all that electricity generation capacity, how do you plan to charge all those electric cars you are insisting on?
It is not just about restoring the ecosystems, but the energy of the humans will definately change for the better due to the positive clean waterflow through the river being restored.
Beautiful. Well done people of nature. Human greed is travesty .i don't understand how people can want to leave their offspring money but no nature, no real life. Dreadful way to think.
Love this. Undamn the rivers! It just makes me more excited for the Klamath and Eel rivers dam removals! The first of the Klamath's four dams has already come down, with the rest scheduled for 2024. Dismantling the Potter Valley project dams on the Eel should start in a few years, as soon as Sonoma can bring itself to let go of some of its free water and bureaucracy does its thing. Still, there is an end!
It's amazing the power of nature, that after a hundred years of abuse and neglect that in just ten years it's recovered/recovering so quickly.. All dams need to be removed for the sake of all living creatures and vegetation, including us.
In a way I’ve got to explore the west coast, camping along most of the rivers and streams, photographing the waterfalls I understand the need for fisheries, also 37 million people live in California, we’re prone to 5 year drought then 2 years of rainfall, at least that’s the way I’ve seen it living near the Sacramento River for seventy five years. How do we save water behind dams or how do we destroy the dams to restore the fisheries, how does all work with 5 western states work together as one. When California’s Central Valley provides food for most of the U.S.?
I am seeing dam removal all around the World now and stream restoration. At 79, a lifelong fisherman and lover of the outdoors, it makes me feel good. My friend, David Armocido, a school teacher, helped get the "Fish in a Classroom" started.
It’s a shame we Americans didn’t listen and learn from the American Indians prior to building these dams. It’s great that we finally understand and are fixing these rivers. We are opening up Klamath river in CA too. 😎🤙
the earth, environment we live in today - we’re not gonna pass/inherit them to the next generations, it’s we - we borrow them - so we must return them in a good conditions to the next generations👍🏾 that’s the mindset we must have now and I am glad I found this documentary❤ thankyou💐☘️🐟🦌
Congratulations on winning a hard-fought battle. Your people deserve to have your way of life restored.
Then the reintroduction of Beaver into the smaller streams and tributaries will help hold water and build up the steady state watershed. It's such a great thing to see the region return to it's past health.
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Taking. Care of Gia
Nobody will go for that.
Now the Indians want the land back to build gambling casinos & gas stations
Beaver dams slow and warm the water and trap sediment. I would love to see some long term data on their effects. I don't think they are the positive you think they are.
The most hopeful thing I have seen on the internet in a long time.
Sadly the lost clean electricity will be made up by burning coal.
Appreciate most heartwarming! ♥️
Me too. Really uplifting.
@@justayoutuber1906with the damaged ecosystems, dams were never clean.
I live in Shelton 90 miles south of the Elwah. My county took out our small dam on Goldsborough Creek. This is no small undertaking. The habitat needs to be rebuilt. Many trees and native plants planted and replanted until they are well established. It was pretty ugly for awhile, but now I can walk a couple miles from my home and find wildwater; the best kind. I was honored to help with the restoration of Nalley Island on the Skokomish Land. Volunteers can really help make a big project smaller.
Make a small project bigger😊
Progress is measured in many ways. Some consider the building of dams to be progress. Some consider their removal as progress. It fills my heart with joy to see these rivers, restored. To see the hard work of the lovers of nature, the salmon, the forests, and the wildlife thriving is wonderful.
Jack
I've been to this place many times before and after the dam removal. I'd recommend people who visit Seattle make it a point to visit the area above the removed dams. It's amazing how quickly it's reclaimed itself.
I was reminded of a grad student I knew at Oregon State who was working to sequence the DNA of salmon in all the rivers that flow from the Coast Range. He was involved over an argument between fishermen and conservationists: in a river that was being restored the fishermen wanted salmon brought in from hatcheries to repopulate rapidly while the conservationists wanted the native salmon to repopulate naturally. His work showed just how genetically distinct the populations in different streams were, including all the tributary streams, which enabled the wildlife people to start a program of the different hatcheries propagating not just whatever population they could easily get eggs from but keeping the offspring from each stream separate and always taken back to the stream they came from.
congratz to the ELwah tribe finally having their river back
Congrats on all of us having the river back
I hope the native Americans here do not start a large, modern, commercial fishing business just to make a lot of money.
For decades on the lower Klamath River in California, a non-native American person would marry a native American woman, and buy a huge jet boat and big modern nets to catch thousands of salmon to sell commercially. These are facts you might not like to hear but I fished the Klamath River for over 50 years.
The dams, logging, developments, AG and commercial fishing all played their part in the destruction of the anadromous fisheries, worldwide.
Was forest biologist forOlympic National Forest during fight to remove dam. Sooo happy to see this marvelous portrait of habitat rejuvenation. Awesome opportunity for intensive monitoring to spur future dam removals.
I lived on the Oregon/Idaho border, where the snake river was the dividing line between the two states. As an Oregon resident the Salmon and Steelhead fishing was closed due to low returns, however Idaho kept the Salmon and Steelhead fishing season open due to their right to fish those fish regardless of the fish numbers decline. These efforts to take down the dams are the first step to restore the fisheries in the areas. The next step is to get All of the states to act as one in restoration. Washington state and Oregon state, and parts of California can't be the only ones to take the restorations seriously. Idaho also needs to be on board and restrict the fishing of these fish in order to fully restore the fisheries.
Pretty sure the coastal states have the Most "responsibility" when it comes to this. Seeing as the fish are coming from the ocean. By the time the fish have made it to Idaho and the likes I think the major obstacles have been overcome.
@@leegoddard2618I disagree, it should be a combined effort. Everything in nature is connected, including the rivers and dams in the water sheds.
@@Nee96Nee fine, tax 'em. 😑😜
@@leegoddard2618- so there are no dams in Idaho? Other states should close their fishing seasons to allow more fish to reach Idaho, spawn, and increase fish numbers so that Idahoans can fish unabated? The fisheries will recover much faster for everyone IF Idaho does it’s fair share.
@@kd8199 yeah, it's ALL Idaho's fault. 🤦😜
This is a great video on the importance of removing old technology that disrupted nature. Working with nature instead of against it is the only way humanity can continue to grow. The narrator is excellent, very smooth voice.
Very inspiring! I'm hopeful that after the four dams on the Klamath River are removed the benefits will be positive as well. Next hopefully are the dams along the lower Snake River.
I've been following this story since the beginning. It is so awe inspiring to see all of the changes! Undaming the Snake River would be a miracle!!
Thanks to the People who Fought to Remove the Dam and allow the River to Heal and Flow once more!!
Love seeing how much it has changed. I was out there a couple years after the dams were removed and it's fantastic to see how much it has changed and grown!
Having the insight to do the right thing is refreshing and gives all Americans hope for a healthier future...
Yes all of us Americans👍👍
This makes my cry with enthusiasm for our salmon, salmon are indeed our miners canary, they go extinct we go extinct, nothing but praise for your efforts. GODS SPEED.
So inspiring! I used to work on the Salmon River in Idaho, which is part of the Columbia River drainage. There's a salmon restoration project underway there too, and I hope the dam removals downstream come to pass so Idaho can become truly rich in nutrients and fish again!
I'm closely tracking the Klamath dams removal near me; this video is the most inspiring thing I've seen. Thank you!
I have not seen any data that suggests that there is any real recovery on some large scale.
@@sweynforkbeard8857 they are still in the early stages of removal.
Really amazing to see the rapid change to the river and the benefits brought to the wildlife! And it's great to see my backyard being shown here.
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Bravo to all who worked on this and best wishes for the tribe.
I grew up in area and remember the debates/arguments we had in high school, the early 80's, and all the nay sayers. Their biggest argument against dam removal was that "it would never recover, so just let it be." Nature will find away if just left alone. Since the removal the Elwha Clallam have had a resurgence of pride for who they were, are and will become as a group.
I was a student at Peninsula College when there was a studium generale with the pro’s and con’s stating their cases. And now, the beauty, knowledge, and experience
Bio-diversity keeps all things alive.
What a wonderful inspirational story. Well done to all those involved in the recovery and healing of the land and river.
You are inspiring so many people on your very important journey. Sending you love and praise for your devotion to your land.
God's grace be upon those who love nature like these beautiful people. ❤
I like how so far in this series, each episode focuses on a creature classified as a keystone species. So far, the Red Woodpecker, Beaver, and now Salmon. Incredible.
Greatest I have ever seen on RUclips. Almost brings tears to my eyes. WONDERFUL. Get rid of all the dams.
No. We need hydropower, which is mostly carbon-free electricity. Getting rid of old dams that don't generate a lot, but hurt the environment is tolerable, but not ALL of them. I'm off to find videos on hydropower.
So excited to see the change in our ecosystem when they remove our dam in Wisconsin soon!
DOES bring tears to my eyes!!!!!
This is a beautiful documentary and I hope many people view this. Years ago I saw the first pictures that were taken of Native Americans who lived on the River and the Salmon that were their lives. The pictures had been colorized and the red Salmon meat drying in the sun seemed to be miles long. It truly was a spectacular sight. The Salmon are the ecosystem. Salmon DNA was found in the trees from Bears who leave the half eaten fish to decay in the soil. The return of Salmon will bring the return of wildlife. Every thing will change and this is the Earth healing. The Dipper birds are fascinating. They dive into the coldest water and "fly" through the strongest currents to feed.
Watching the dam blow up was awesome. Imagine the feeling that gentleman had pushing the detonator!!! Kinda envious 😅
I hope that in ten year's time or so, another documentary update is made on the River and its' ecosystem.
Thank you for this documentary ‼️🥰
The 190 million beavers removed from the system since european introduction has had a dramatic effect on the strength and robustness of our wetland environments. Natural vs man made dams are anight and day went talking about the ecology they support.
I love your comment. I am a big advocate of beaver habitat restoration. Few have any idea how many beavers were in North America, or anything about the wetlands they created across the continent. Their value to our environment cannot be overstated.
Its so nice to see this heartwarming story in these dark times.
I'm so happy for the people who started this and made it a huge success. It was a great education for me as well. I love smoked salmon and used to catch limits of 3 often. As a community of people who have counted on the salmon for generations to see this completed must be a dream come true. I'm so happy for them.
Hiked this basin before and after. Some dams have benefits that can balance the costs, but not on the Elwah. The mouth of the river has been completely transformed for the better.
The River is our lifeblood.
🌎🌊🌲🔥🌪 ❤️
So cool to see what nature does when allowed to recover.
Excellent program! Thank you❤️
I never knew about dam removal. Thank you fore educating me.
Loved this. Thank you for filming and telling this important story. So interesting and hopeful!
I love this series, lets us know if we work together, trust scientists and indigenous peoples' and realize that humans cannot control nature but can nurture and assist it, anything is possible. It all seems so hopeless most of the time and any optimism seems quaint and almost naive but seeing this series is great to see REAL possible change for the better with quantifiable results, metrics that prove the results. Hope without logic is just a dream, to combine hope with work, logic and community is where hope becomes reality. Everything is impossible until it's not.
I grew up on the Kitsap Peninsula. I hiked the Olympic Press Trail when I was a kid in the early '80's. We ended up at Elkhorn on the Elwah. Some beautiful country.
that camera trap stuff was incredible. I feel like you could have used more of that visual that was really amazing
This is an amazing story and a great accomplishment, yet it is just one (large) step in the restoration of the river. The streams and creeks that feed the river must also be protected and restored, allowing beavers to create dams and wetlands that will feed fresh water to the river during the drier summer months. If we are serious about restoring rivers and fish, we must protect and preserve our rivers from the headwaters to the sea. The cost of this will be extremely high, but the benefits will far outweigh the costs.
Thank you! I really enjoyed getting to see and learn about this beautiful part of the United States that I have never visited. God blessed us with a beautiful country, a beautiful planet, and the life He created in it will thrive and renew itself if we just give it a chance.
Wonderful information for all! Many thanks👏
this is awesome! i live in new hampshire and my town voted last year to remove a dam that was installed in the 1600s, i'm so excited to see the effects it has on the environment. atlantic salmon populations have been in decline for centuries here so hopefully they'll have a similar restoration story to those in the pacific northwest!
That was amazing - thank you for all you've done in this area. (from the UK) I hope this message is heard and more dam removal happens in other areas
Nice to see a documentary on a positive environmental note, usually it’s going to be the other way. Good Work.
i grew up in northern Washington I've been there when the dam was still there...I'm so happy to see it gone...not the rest of them need to be taken down.
Beautiful, positive and promising. Thank you
Love this!
What a rigorous restoration research and practice, stimulating content. CONGRATULATIONS
So nice to see the people destroying other people's lives actually doing something about the misery they've caused!
I was feeling incredibly despondent today and this episode gave me hope, thank you!
Your legacy restoring the natural order for a time .
in BC, and BC Hydro has more than 80 dams across the province. in my Town: Campbell River has 3 on the same river alone.
With the technology we have in this day and age, we dont needs dams for Hydroelectricity, Flow generators, and tidal flow generators are producing as much or more power than dams from the days past.
Amazing restoration! I’d like to see more information on ecologically friendly hydroelectric production as a source of non fossil energy.
Do the research 🧐 yourself
Thankyou for sharing such a beautiful constructive documentary earth angels remain blessed wow.❤🎉
Having grown up in Washington, I have seen the salmon populations returning in limited numbers but the work is not done. Seattle City light is fighting local tribes to keep many dams in place. I hope the local tribes can overcome these companies.
I live blocks away from the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. We have three lock and dams that are still owned and somewhat operational by the US Army Corps. They are in the process of deciding what to do with them since barge traffic is no longer coming up this far in the river. Our situation is different than the Pacific Northwest, since we don’t have the keystone specie migration up here. Actually, the dams and St. Anthony falls are serving an important function keeping the invasive Asian Carp out of the more northern stretches of the river. We also have a couple of modest sized hydro power facilities on the dams.
I canoe and kayak these waters and am conflicted over what is to be done. Whatever is decided, I hope it’s the best thing for the ecosystem, long term.
The progress in the PNW in dam removal is just so wonderful, I’ve watch a number of these documentaries and it is amazing to see nature restores its self when given the chance. I’m also so happy for the native communities that have their heritage restored. Folks are working on similar programs with the bison here in Minnesota, though they are tiny compared to the historic range of the animals.
Is there anything being done to the invasive Asian Carps?
Are they edible in anyway? Like feeding it to bears and other wildlife animals?
@@robertlee8805 the US Fish and Wildlife service is studying them and their advancement up the rivers. The biggest threat is in the Chicago Sanitary Canal. There they have a high voltage electric barrier in the channel. If the carp make it into Lake Michigan, there will be nothing to stop them from taking over all the Great Lakes and threatening a large commercial fishery that already suffered heavy metal poisoning and Sea Lamprey, as well as other invasive.
The carp are a marketable fish, the challenge is making it a profitable industry.
This is so powerful and beautiful,its making me cry with joy!💗☺️💗☺️💗
Your ancestors are supporting and holding space for your
dedication, determination to make manifest into the next now successful ❤ A'ho 💦
I grew up here, and am fascinated to see the changes. It gives me such hope.
It’s so gratifying to see these dams come down and these ecosystems being restored. I remember watching the documentary DamNation when it first came out. That documentary first informed me about the catastrophic impact dams caused to fish and wildlife. I can’t believe it’s already been 10 years since then. I’m really hoping more dams come down and more ecosystems are restored.🌲🐟🦌
*Nothing is more beautiful than untouched natural landscapes* - not even Gucci purses (sorry that was an insult and bad joke) 😍😍
I wish it was this simple where I live, here we have pollution killing our river and our eels (basically what salmon are to you) my great grandfather used to survive off the river back when we still lived in simple dirt huts but sadly later in life when eels already almost all disappeared and pollution was at its highest (the 70's) it was also what killed him, he died of a rare type of cancer.
May God bless all whom protect and free the spirit of nature 😇🧚♂️
DOES bring tears to my eyes!!!!!
Ahhh man, I am so excited and so happy that this is happening!
I mean don't get me wrong dams had their place back in the day but it's definitely time for them to go.
Thank you for making and sharing this content °~•.☆.•~°
They still do. Take away Hoover dam and see what happens
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Blessings.
Excellent video and I'm glad to have seen Elwha before, and soon to see it now, hopefully this spring.
It's good to see native peoples (who weren't consulted, moved off their land and are traditionally marginalised) get their rivers back and to see nature being restored
It’s good to study them and focus on good things
"I feel like I'm at home"
I love you all so much.
Hugs
What an amazing achievement. ❤
Seeing the river restored is a beautiful thing. Good work. Question, with the loss of all that electricity generation capacity, how do you plan to charge all those electric cars you are insisting on?
It is not just about restoring the ecosystems, but the energy of the humans will definately change for the better due to the positive clean waterflow through the river being restored.
❤Incredible work! I hope more dams will be removed and we can help return nature to her former glory.😊
we've spent so much time, energy and money getting in the way of nature. Letting nature doing what its supposed to benefits everyone
Thanks Nature on PBS 👍
Let's rebuild it. Love the native for the long hard fought Battle 💪🙏.
Beautiful. Well done people of nature. Human greed is travesty .i don't understand how people can want to leave their offspring money but no nature, no real life. Dreadful way to think.
wonderful ,places ,people well done it took a long time but sanity won in the end .
the hard part is over, now it's time to watch the rewards of the efforts grow back
How do the salmon know which river to return to? Is it possible to move spawn from populated rivers to unpopulated ones?
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No… not sure if you are trolling or not… but salmon will always return to their own birthplace to spawn. It is imprinted into the fish.
@@Bambisgf77 Not trolling. Just a straightforward question. I have no subtext.
Electromagnetic energy, moonlight, internal compass God gave fish
Good question.
Possible create fry from captured fish and then release in a new river. The fish have this as their birth river and will return
Love this. Undamn the rivers!
It just makes me more excited for the Klamath and Eel rivers dam removals!
The first of the Klamath's four dams has already come down, with the rest scheduled for 2024. Dismantling the Potter Valley project dams on the Eel should start in a few years, as soon as Sonoma can bring itself to let go of some of its free water and bureaucracy does its thing. Still, there is an end!
I feel that schools should talk about this subjects to the students to engage them in biology science and animals and the marine life❤❤❤❤❤
This was very informative. Thank you
It's amazing the power of nature, that after a hundred years of abuse and neglect that in just ten years it's recovered/recovering so quickly.. All dams need to be removed for the sake of all living creatures and vegetation, including us.
Thank you for sharing this inspiring video ❤
I love birds and all animals ❤❤❤❤❤❤
In a way I’ve got to explore the west coast, camping along most of the rivers and streams, photographing the waterfalls I understand the need for fisheries, also 37 million people live in California, we’re prone to 5 year drought then 2 years of rainfall, at least that’s the way I’ve seen it living near the Sacramento River for seventy five years. How do we save water behind dams or how do we destroy the dams to restore the fisheries, how does all work with 5 western states work together as one. When California’s Central Valley provides food for most of the U.S.?
Heroes 🙏 ❤👍
THANK YOU
I am seeing dam removal all around the World now and stream restoration.
At 79, a lifelong fisherman and lover of the outdoors, it makes me feel good.
My friend, David Armocido, a school teacher, helped get the "Fish in a Classroom" started.
Dam,I have to agree 💯 with what was said and done. I really hope they continue to remove other unnecessary dams and help revive more of the ecosystem.
It’s a shame we Americans didn’t listen and learn from the American Indians prior to building these dams. It’s great that we finally understand and are fixing these rivers. We are opening up Klamath river in CA too. 😎🤙
amazing documentary, loved this
the earth, environment we live in today - we’re not gonna pass/inherit them to the next generations, it’s we - we borrow them - so we must return them in a good conditions to the next generations👍🏾 that’s the mindset we must have now and I am glad I found this documentary❤ thankyou💐☘️🐟🦌