I used to kayak on the frog waters of Topsy in Keno Oregon and last time i went home, to see it free flowing brought happy tears to my eyes. Its so nice to see our landscape returning to what its supposed to be
As I approach the end of my days, I am grateful that I have lived long enough to see this. In my early youth I had a vision of salmon in a beautiful forest stream, and it has been dear to my heart for seventy years. I do not understand my connection to the salmon, but it is a part of me. Their return is a blessing. Hopefully, as grasses and vegetation return to the river and streams, beavers will also increase in numbers so they can rebuild wetlands for birds, frogs, turtles, and countless other creatures. Restoration will never be complete without them.
Give it five to 10 years for the natural flows to clean out the river, the bugs will return along with the salmon the steelhead and trout in general. A dam has been removed some years back on the East Branch of the Eight Mile River, here in CT and in just a few years you can see the improvement in flow and well it's stocked with trout as are most steams here, it's a great streach to fish.
Wonderful to see Pacific salmon quickly returning to your rivers so quickly. As an Atlantic Salmon angler I wish their recovery would be as clear. As it appears now only the rivers of Iceland and Northern Russia Kola Peninsula have big numbers this side of the Atlantic. Now with the situation in Russia/ Ukraine fishing there or researching the salmon is not possible. Simon Artley Manchester UK
Look to the Chinese fleets taking everything they can gill net purseseine long line and dredge from waters around the world and the declines in stocks suddenly make a clear picture
This has been such a successful project. I was there a few days ago when the Klamath was flowing at over 8,000 cfs. I'm sure a lot of the sediment that some folks were concerned about is getting flushed down to the estuary. It will be exciting to see steelhead spawning up here in a few months! Many thanks to the native people that remained persistent and made this happen so effectively. And to all the other knowledgeable, hard working professionals that supported them through this complicated process. 🏞️☮️🌦️
I used to kayak on the frog waters of Topsy in Keno Oregon and last time i went home, to see it free flowing brought happy tears to my eyes. Its so nice to see our landscape returning to what its supposed to be
As I approach the end of my days, I am grateful that I have lived long enough to see this. In my early youth I had a vision of salmon in a beautiful forest stream, and it has been dear to my heart for seventy years. I do not understand my connection to the salmon, but it is a part of me. Their return is a blessing. Hopefully, as grasses and vegetation return to the river and streams, beavers will also increase in numbers so they can rebuild wetlands for birds, frogs, turtles, and countless other creatures. Restoration will never be complete without them.
Give it five to 10 years for the natural flows to clean out the river, the bugs will return along with the salmon the steelhead and trout in general. A dam has been removed some years back on the East Branch of the Eight Mile River, here in CT and in just a few years you can see the improvement in flow and well it's stocked with trout as are most steams here, it's a great streach to fish.
If I understand this correctly, dams were destroyed just to give the salmon extra miles to swim?
No Nets=More Salmon
Wonderful to see Pacific salmon quickly returning to your rivers so quickly.
As an Atlantic Salmon angler I wish their recovery would be as clear.
As it appears now only the rivers of Iceland and Northern Russia Kola Peninsula have big numbers this side of the Atlantic.
Now with the situation in Russia/ Ukraine fishing there or researching the salmon is not possible.
Simon Artley Manchester UK
Look to the Chinese fleets taking everything they can gill net purseseine long line and dredge from waters around the world and the declines in stocks suddenly make a clear picture
Now,if they would just pull the dams off the Columbia
This has been such a successful project. I was there a few days ago when the Klamath was flowing at over 8,000 cfs. I'm sure a lot of the sediment that some folks were concerned about is getting flushed down to the estuary.
It will be exciting to see steelhead spawning up here in a few months!
Many thanks to the native people that remained persistent and made this happen so effectively. And to all the other knowledgeable, hard working professionals that supported them through this complicated process. 🏞️☮️🌦️
You should check out @Lisa-mott. She has been capturing lots of video from the former reservoirs after the storms. There are a bunch from Jan 2, 2025.
Those locals down there freaking out about a splotch of mud omfg!Mud as far as you can see in Alaska and the fish love it!