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- The Klamath River dams removal is the largest river restoration project in U.S. history, and it is nearly finished after years of toxic algae, dead wildlife and protests from local natives who wanted change. NBC News' Steve Patterson has the latest update on the dams' removal.
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#KlamathRiver #Restoration #Removal
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I lived in Klamath, at the mouth of the river. This is wonderful.
What a beautiful place to live !!!
My family has a house right below the dams..... the river is now toxic because they removed all the dams at once, all the wildlife is struggling and dying.... how did this help?
@@silva7493it was.... now the river is toxic because of the family removal
@@bigfoot163 I'm so sorry to hear about what your family and the wildlife are going through!! That must be very difficult, and sad. I certainly do hope it's a relatively short time till these issues are resolved, and you all are enjoying your beautiful surroundings again.
@@bigfoot163 its a river, the silt will pass, because its a river, do you not understand how flowing water works? The fish will rebound within years and I will personally bet you $100 there will be leagues more salmon in the upper klamath 5 years from now, the old lake sites will have 8 foot willows
Your going to be surprised how quick nature takes the river back.
or destroys it with a volcanic eruption, because we are in a cycle where many ancient volcanos are waking up and eruption. Remember the Klamath River basin was made by a series of volcanic eruptions, Volcano that are dormmate and not extinct, sleeping until their next eruption.
Just ast the people of Iceland in the town of Grindavik about how a volcano that erupted 800 years ago has woken up and devastated their lives.
Hope so! I’ve never been but I love the woods and I have always wanted to travel there.
@@raymondheckard234 LOL, stay afraid.
@@ronbelanger4113 not afraid, just look at reality of the facts, in the recent years long dormant volcanos have woken up and erupted.
Volcanic eruption go to show no matter how muck Mankind thinks they are in charge and try to control the environment, good ole Mother Earth slaps mankind down for the High pedestal back down to reality.
Yep, where there is water lige thrives, it'll be a whole different view inside of 10 years.
Wow!!! I am so happy to have lived to see (at least) the beginning of this restoration project.
My family has a house right below the dams..... the river is now toxic because they removed all the dams at once, all the wildlife is struggling and dying.... how did this help?
Are you happy about electricity prices in California?
@@bigfoot163your family's house is fine. The river will be fine. As a matter of fact by next year the river will be way better than it was last year!
@@gregorymalchuk272 the dams werent producing electricity, also hydropower can be easily replaced with wind farms, nuclear, and solar. If you care about water conservation I recommend you fight for beaver reintroduction programs, not keyboard warring over an ecological restoration project that people got their masters degrees to do.
I know how important this is for alot of people.Im happy to see it going forward
My family has a house right below the dams..... the river is now toxic because they removed all the dams at once, all the wildlife is struggling and dying.... how did this help?
@bigfoot163, you are saying it was better before? Or are you saying it should have been done differently? Explain yourself please.
Some good news finally!!
My family has a house right below the dams..... the river is now toxic because they removed all the dams at once, all the wildlife is struggling and dying.... how did this help?
This is a very bottish comment
This should have been already done a decade ago at least!!
The construction companies that built the dams got several nods from the PTB like not building fish ladders but building the power station.
And for a very long time that dams have not in fact provided power for industry. Unless the power generation equipment was upgraded or replaced, they were obsolete and inefficient.
Ecologically, the story is self explanatory. Notice how the local people are taking responsibility to start returning native plants to the river system. In the adjacent streams and ares, it would be good to include beaver in the process. They slow down water and do not stop it. The wetlands created serve as fire buffers and habitat among other things. They also keep water on the land even in extended droughts.
We need to start concentrating on Nuclear/Geothermal power. Fake renewables are not going to cut it.
It is possible to create and manage sections of the river where water is slowed down to make it possible for firefighting water to be obtained.
This is actually a logical argument all the way around. The dams being outdated and not generating power rendering them pointless and should have been removed. And the first thing I thought about was its time for operation bever drop. From the shots i saw though i didnt see a lot of trees or bush for them to work with. But the wetlands they creat would act as a huge fire break.
Nice. Hope this works out well.
My family has a house right below the dams..... the river is now toxic because they removed all the dams at once, all the wildlife is struggling and dying.... how did this help?
The Squatch will be happy.
@@lostinpa-dadenduro7555 squatches
May the salmon return by the tens of thousands. Blessed be.
I counted salmon on the salmon river. We counted 2 adults on my 3mi reach...
yay this makes me happy 😊
The Elwha regained its summer steelhead run. Rainbows were locked up stream of the dams. They carried the genetics of Steelhead for 100 years and when they took down the dams many of those bows went back to being Steelhead! The fish found a way. All we need to do is free these rivers, repair the habitat and feeder streams as much as possible, keep the water clean and get out of the way.
I agree. I've always said "the fish know what they need, all we have to do is let them do it"
The problem was that they built the dams directly in the center of the rivers, instead of building an offshoot to the side. They should have dug canals off to the side so that the original rivers could flow naturally. Hindsight 20/20
Can you show me an example of where this technique has been implemented?
Do you think it is plausible?
We have nuclear fission now so dams will be rendered obsolete in the near future.
Bring back beavers. We should learn from nature rather than trying to control it.
Good idea
So beaver dams are good but hydroelectricity dams are bad? Sounds like a naturalist fallacy to me.
@@gregorymalchuk272No, he's right. Beaver dams are good. You just need to do some research.
😂@@georgehaydukeiii6396
@@gregorymalchuk272the difference in beaver dams vs man made dams (specifically the ones on this clip) is that fish and other riparian species thrive in the beaver dammed locations. Salmon had no problem getting to the top of the river w beaver dams, because they’re scalable.
So happy to hear. Such good news.
HUGE AWESOME NEWS!!!!! I applaud everyone that helped with this RIVER restoration!
They also found the dams kept sediment from getting to the ocean which was ruining that ecosystem as well as the rivers
Yes! That is true, and not many people are talking about the fact. Hopefully now that the river is flowing unimpeded, most of that sediment is going to sea where it belongs.
Beautiful!! I love it!!❤❤
Oh dear God ,i really wanna swim in this river so badly but I'm at home now😭😭 in Malaysia
bout 10 years, things will start looking bright for the plants and animals
I think it will be way less than 10 years. The footprint of the old reservoirs is already covered in poppies, grasses and other vegetation.
Restore the Columbia river.
Amazing we need to heal the earth
Restoring represents a future!!!👍
Yay! A GOOD story for once from the press!
Way to go, congrats from Montreal! I'm a chick forest technician, I majored in Sylviculture and left my career at disgust over how things work in Québec, you're wonderful, bye bye wasteful water management.
awesome finally a good story from the West coast.
Let's give PacifiCorp some credit as they are willing to work with communities and willing to give up property they owned to give back to the people. We all know they could've easily made it not possible no matter how much protesting happened.
But they did it and gave back the land. Bravo PacifiCorp
In return I hope to god they have been given the green light for Nuclear power as I know they are working on ways to minimize or eliminate waste
(funny how) wild (actual) life would sustain the idea of wild life fires to begin with
This was to happen when Scottish power owned it and was approved…….. then Warren Buffett smelled money …… bought it skimmed profit for decade and sold it to shell corporation taking any risk away from them .
Be wary of where your investment money is spent.
Yes! Exactly! 100%
Can’t we just build a series of small natural sized dams that allow salmon to jump over but still retain some water?
Yes,fish ladders
Well, no. Why? This whole project is about restoring the river to as close to a natural state as we can. For firefighting, he's outlined the steps they've taken to identify areas where they can draw water and make it more accessible. Can't think of any other reason to build dams.
@@karendurant4981 to hold more water……
Nature will return quickly.
It’s like people forget wildfires is a part of nature lol
Awesome story!
Let the water flow, and the water table will be healed.👍🏻✌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🍾🍾🍾🥂✨✨✨✨✨💫🌟⭐️
nah, its who you are
Ceo Man is the worst
If they want hysroelectric, why not install waterwheels?
No offense, but I would study up on hydrodynamics if I were you.
What about the soil and Algae that is on the bottom of these reservoirs that are now being flushed down the river killing other forms of life like was seen this last year in the Klamath area where deers and fish and bald eagles had been seen stuck in a cement like tar substance slowly being killed?
What about the sediment? It's getting flushed out to sea like it had been for 10's of thousands of years. In a couple years the river will have way more life in it then it did when the dams were in place.
Do you like toxic blue-green algae or something?🤮
were these hydroelectric dams?
Some were old ones. But no longer cost effective to run.
Now stop the Netting.
Great!
Crazy
What future???.
Get it out of there!
Cool that it's the largest in history. God bless. Jesus loves you!
For the “journalist”: to decimate a thing is to reduce it by 10%-literally. You said the salmon were “decimated” and then clarified that 90% were destroyed. That is annihilation. Journalists used to be the bearers of factual description. What happened? Do you not have access to dictionaries, or the Internet?
I get and am not denying the old meaning. But it has come to mean something kind of synonymous with catastrophic destruction. Most dictionaries now use that definition as the first/primary. The usage you're using is usually second and is now often tagged historic/historical.
In short, language changes.
Stick to being a citizen of the world and go fix Palestine since you would also be a citizen of the fake country Palestine.
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could be good, but where will the power come from if not from hydro electric dams?
According to the Biden Administration.. Lead batteries are the future !!
they were barely making any power
@@tomwillis9051you made this up. No one has said that. California already has a surplus of electricity generated from wind and solar. Try to catch up with the times Tom.
@@georgehaydukeiii6396 You are kidding right?? -- A simple google search ( "California heat wave straining power grid" ) will pull up endless stories of on National news channels about this problem.. Reason not affected so much in 2024?? DAMS ... The DAMS reservoirs are full this year and the DAMS Are producing enough power to handle the load..
So George before you make DUMB comments -- Research what you you are talking about..
👏👏👏All they need now is to start breeding the salmon and releasing the fish into the river to quicken up the progress of renewing the salmon's population in this river.Rivers are home to abundant fish and wildlife, including: Freshwater fish like Bass, Perch, abluegill, and Carp. Migratory fish such as alewife, salmon, trout, and striped bass. Invertebrates that provide food for fish. They can begin breeding tons of fish and releasing them into the river👍🇺🇲🪶✨️
so you just named all the fish you know. Most of them are not native Oregon and California and don't belong here.
Human beings managing to repair the wrongs of the past, but if Trump wins, say good bye to all these restoration projects...
I wonder if China will have similar issues w the dams being built in 100 yrs
Just removing the dams is good enough. Nature always finds a way. You lose less water to evaporation, which fill underground aquifers. That builds springs. Plants that have been dormant come back. There really is no downside. I’m not an expert but have watched too many TH-cam videos.
how many farms had to quit growing food because now there is no water to irrigate with? Food is expensive because of stupidness like this.
Food is expensive for many many reasons and this isn't one of them.
So what is stupidness anyway?
@@karendurant4981 1400 farms almost 200,000 acres of farm land don't have a water souce for irrigating the crops now that the dams are gone. KAREN
@@juliantucker5695Julian, first learn to read. Then read about this project. If you actually did that, you'd know that none of these dams provided any water whatsoever for agriculture. They were only built to generate electricity, and they didn't even do that very well. Catch up on the facts before you flap your trap!
@@georgehaydukeiii6396 hey george your a keyboard warrior aren't you.lowest of the low.
Sending money and focus to Ukraine and Israel is far more important than saving our own land here in America
terrible idea
Far Better go with Canals from the Upstream to Downstream.
Hopefully in the "generations to come" will not need the water reservoir that these dams actually created....
The "water reservoir" was so badly polluted, it was toxic to people and other animals. "Water reservoirs" don't work here on this river. Besides hardly anyone lives there.
It's been an ecological disaster. The river is dead now. Will be years before it recovers. Most of the people in the region did not want this. The people in the big cities to the south wanted this.
You must be a great scientist, right?
having a less developed society means less people and less immigration
News people are patting themselves on their backs. It's a shameful addition to journalism.
Wouldn't it be cool if hunter gatherers fished to feed themselves, not for their economies, as stated by Kent
It's to late for this why even spend the money in doing it
For every other living thing that calls the river home, and for the sake of the ecosystem, society, culture, and economy’s stability and sustainability.
interesting that nbc news didn't interviewed any of the folks that lived in the river and lakes areas, didn't interview the park rangers& game wardens (they are the front lines on what's going on).
Does karack tribe have $$$$ casino?
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you're crazy.
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