With Dams Removed, Salmon Will Have the Run of a Western River: The nation’s largest dam removal project is nearly complete after a lengthy campaign by Native tribes to restore the river @CA-NV border

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givesomefucks , 5 hours ago

It’s not just the loss of hydro power, it’s going to cut water availability upstream of the dams.

They need to at least introduce a bunch of beaver to get that back, but I’d have loved to see one of those adaptions to help salmon past the dams instead of this. We can’t count on everything returning naturally to how it was 100 years ago before the dams.

This sounds great, I just hope they thought it thru first.

silence7 OP , 2 hours ago

There were a couple decades of thinking it through first. We can’t get back exactly what we had — temperatures are higher now, and that affects evaporation and salmon, but this seems like the right decision in this location.

givesomefucks , 2 hours ago

Yeah. I’m just worried about the effects on surrounding vegetation and if increased dryness would make more fires, and allow them to spread further.

I don’t think this spot is really that far away from where we’ve deployed beavers for that. And salmon can jump a beaver dam.

Seems like the best option to mitigate downside of dam removal.

silence7 OP , 2 hours ago

We all know what that means.