After Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History, This River Is Thriving | National Geographic 

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Dam, some people just dont get it. This was a good choice.

All that beautiful concrete destroyed. What a shame. I'm sure a bunch of hideous trees will eventually grow there.

That's because "people" in general are Stupid.

Those people are programmed cult members, selfish little people, and/or brain-dead. What I'm saying is that they voted for Trump.

Once the Once the Salmon are gone were next. Mankind has been eating SALMON SINCE THE BEGINING

They provide good lookout points. Would be nice to see a footbridge connect the two sides.

I agree wholeheartedly (I have relatives in Port Angeles and have seen the site of the Elwha Dam). Salmon are tasty, and I want them to exist for as long as possible--sure, they are ecologically very imporant, but man are they delicious.

This is the more idiot thing to do. If the do not have another solution to fish procriation than destroying a dam it is the proof that you must not listen what these specialists are saying. Sorry about inform you. They are just gambling you.

+Luís Augusto Panadés -I don't think you got all the information needed to make an informed decision. The dams had originally only 2 customers, a couple of paper mills. So no power was being provided to the public. One of those mills has already been demolished because of antiquated equipment and changing markets. So the removal of these dams had no net loss on the amount of power available to the electrical grid. And to top it off, the restoration of the salmon runs, which included some of the largest salmon in the world is a major gain for the people of the Northwest. You are not really trying to understand the nuances of this particular case. And I wouldn't support a poorly thought out dam removal project if it wasn't a winner for the local community. I have lived through the spotted owl debacle, and watched friends and neighbors lose careers, homes and families because of poorly though out government policies. So this isn't my first rodeo, buckwheat!

I will repeat: if these scientists can't find one way to procriate salmons better than destroying power plants then this is the reason itself to not trust them period. How energy could be used in the region if the dam were used in public profit. Sorry man, the first idea to a coherent man who wannas preserve the nature is kill himself. It is not fine to say that, but it is true. The truth is painfull. Man, you have cases but any sense. Sorry. The case puts you blind. Africa was so preserved and what they got? It is sad the propaganda is turning people in completly idiots with auto-destructive behavior. Man you will lose much more with this kind of mind. Is the socialization that produced all this pain. USA has the great depression of 29, a corrupt bank fraud that fucked USA with some participation of USA government that prolong the crises with their measures. It is so sad a so wonderfull country, like USA or Canada are entering this policies. Try URSS and you will understand how bad the things will be. You are rich and do not know. You are in heaven an complaining. The devil is doing promises and you are believing. Solution: pay a system of fish procriation pumped by dam energy. Much much more efficient and less expensive. But has not a green seal. Because it empower people with resources and communists (the neo-green) just limit people resources and options. Bye bye dam.

By their very nature, hydroelectric dams tend to be built in narrow valleys without any alternative routes for sediment or fish, as to maintain a continuous flow of water through the turbines you need a significant head of water, therefore a very deep reservoir. I'd imagine only real way to do both is to build a partial weir upstream, then take the water flowing over the weir segment (with very little sediment) and run it through a pipe into an adjacent valley with no significant watercourse and build your dam in that.

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@@UKLIVENews2017HD4K You meant China? lol. Oh well, it's not easy for people to do that especially when they are under the regime of a dictator. That's precisely why I said that it's nice to see. Got it?

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You’re right. We just need everyone like that

Ya now if the rest of America would do that to throw out trump it would be great

Don't worry they build a coal powerplant to make up the power loss...

Erik M nuclear isn't bad just can be very bad if it goes wrong it causes no damages to the Eco system though no gas etc unless it blows tf up lmfao

erik is programmed by hippie teachers to be totally anti-nuclear (he can't help it - he's brain-washed). I have a little anti-nuclear common sense; when it comes to locating reactors on tectonic plate edges / earth quake zones. It's a fukushima waiting to happen.

Shroud Rehab actually nuclear power is very bad, we have no way to dispose of the toxic and radioactive waste, that will continue to be radioactive for many decades.

*many centuries or an infinite length of time, but here's the thing. Any unused fuel rods we have, must be stored in special containment areas regardless if they are spent/waste or unused/new. Once you isolate those radioactive isotopes - you better have a special place to store them, and WE DO HAVE. Environmentalist have exaggerated the problem of storing radioactive material.

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They removed the dam for fish..... Our government doesn't care about 5 million lives 🙁

they remove a dam for endangered fish yet they could have build a fish ladder and the endangered fish are being commercially caught in the ocean which is just as bad as dam being in the way. in idaho 1.5 million salmon swam up these rivers a long time ago but now there is less than 100,000 swimming back to Idaho rivers, and that number is still decreasing every year. :{

Steve l simply killing off a fish species for no reason (the dams' electrical power was not being utilized) is not the same as catching fish for food. Not to mention you can't legally catch or serve an endangered species of fish in the United States...

Once the fish were no longer able to spawn there the fishery is dead in that river. Fish can't return there to spawn as they were not hatched there in the first place. Removing dams has zero impact on salmon runs unless hatchery fish are used but then it's not natural or endangered fish is it. Removing dams just make tree huggers feel good and electricity more expensive.

Supadubya The same law applys for the rest of the world. Get an education u ignorant american

Raphael Smithwick no it doesnt many parts of the world dont enforce those laws

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expert is not a legitimate profession. everybody can call themselves expert

The video has 3.1m views, you would expect a few so called experts in whatever field it was.

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Ando Servis You can do your part by not using power at your house.

Kenny Rodger Solar panels....

Ando Servis I'm assuming that you're trying to communicate to me that your house runs solely on solar panel power. That's a good start.

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Well said. These kids don't know anything

Exactly. They were "obsolete". Modern Dams are built with technology that deals with the sediment transfer downriver and allows for fish and other species to travel upriver. Therefore modern dams are more ecological than old dams. Dams are a sustainable way to obtain cheap energy (with high EROEI of 10 or greater) while oil, gas and nuclear are not sustainable.

Sorry but with a bit of it's energy a sediment transfer can be easly implemented. Sorry sorry to inform you. You are wrong in your conclusions. And, what the fuck means "sustainable". Man, stop talking boldshit. Something told you that concept and you are repeating. It is a beautifull world but means nothing. Is is just a way to deal with credulity of good people, it is a way to gamble you.

Luís Augusto Panadés You've completely missed the point, both times, and seem to not know any of the history of these two particular dams. The scientists know how fish ladders can be built into old dams. They know how dams can be built with ecological concerns in mind. The problem lies not with them, but with the builders of the dam and the entities funding the building and retrofitting of dams. The owners of these two dams were given a price to bring the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams up to code (which included fish passage). The cost, in order to gain relicensing, was more than the cost of taking the dams down. Because these dams were not being fully utilized, and did not need to be fully utilized since power for PA was being purchased from elsewhere, they were not profitable enough to justify the cost the retrofit. Thus, the owners concluded it was a better decision to remove them, since they could not be relicensed as they were. Dude, I'm not even getting into the Native issues regarding these dams, which flooded their sacred sites and forced relocation. The Natives have been abused physically and politically from that whole mess, for the better part of a century. Do a little research of your own before you call other people stupid, and end up looking stupid yourself. Don't assume that my opinions regarding THESE dams are the same as for ALL dams everywhere. The SAD truth, as you keep trying to point out, is in fact that many of these old dams can't be fixed for any reasonable price to address ecological concerns. Another sad fact is that dam owners are often too cheap to CARE, either about old dams or dams they are pushing to build now. That's greed and ignorance for you. This has nothing to do with the fact that modern dams CAN build in these ecological measures during the planning phase. With many dams, it doesn't have to be an either/or situation. A little planning, and compromise with the scientists who most definitely know their shit, and dams can be built. I'm also getting the impression that you know next to nothing about salmon ecology. What are these "inexpensive" methods of salmon reproduction you keep mentioning? Also, since socialism has nothing to do with this discussion, I'm going to politely decline researching the Soviet Union unless we start talking about salmonids in the Hucho genus.

All those ecological concerns are too often abused by groups who just want publicity and money. I have seen development of those fish friendly devices on river that was changed to irrigation channel and bit later utilized for production of electricity. Those so called fish ladders that crippled ability of power plants effectively produce are hardly used by anything that have fins. As well those same groups pushed for creation of reservations that were created illegally, against laws that were in effect by that time, and now require insane things for everything from highway to garden shed. That is grim reality of "ecology" those people too often hate mankind and would do everything just to make themselves feel better by destroying other. I have not seen, save for very few old men, any of them doing or fining way how reduce impacts while level of well being is saved or increased. But I have seen many restrictions in name of ecology that crippled living and freedom of other. None of "eco" groups ever provided working model for renewable energetics neither just for electricity, but they require money for their experiments that when used for conventional NPP would secure all electricity and bit more. That's one thing. Other is if national reservation was founded AFTER construction of those dams, they have to count with that fact and not try to change it. It would be very interesting whether measurable gains, thus things that we can compare and we can compare only revenues saved money will in some "short (20-30years)" period highly surpass eventual revenues that could be done from either paper or exported electricity at any form. (I think with advancing technology of E-gas they could be utilized at full again). If those groups and people who are behind this destruction want do anything that will really help, they would let those dams to their destiny and start solving real problems. Hmm, what about seminaries about drop watering of crops down in California? What about reforestation of dust bowl states? And what about better management of Niagara river? Is doing something about more, much more problematic situations really out of their power or they are just hypocritical?

Always has been since 1900s

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If you watch a video straight after it has been uploaded.. Then of course it doesn't have much views!

So your saying it should be dumbed down with dubbed in rock cords and suspense music and BS drama with impending disaster at every turn. That's what Discovery channel had to do. They had to trailer park the channel cause we are being burdened in society with children minds with short attention spans and little skills of comprehension.

Lol. "Trailer Park it". Yes indeed.

They'd get more views if they put boobs in the thumbnail.

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@kyle7412 I like what you did there.

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Man, stop talking boldshit. Thinking in restoring ecosystem and you will conclude you are not part of it. So, explaining: it conducts to your elimination the same way like they destroy that dam. So restoring the ecosystem comprehends taking you out, completly, of the system. Oh oh. You just don't thought enough to conclude how it is obvious. This things are dumbing people that repeat the greatests sillies things like was real thruths.

Luís Augusto Panadés What are you talking about?

You are an idiot.

+ganymedeIV4 lol. I think so too

Well they on the endangered list now

Yeah we don't need water ran into are homes neither we can haul all the water to wash are clothes take showers and do are dishes as long as them nooked can swim all off this for a fish

It doesn't do much of anything for dwindling salmon runs unfortunately

Kind of works in Brisbane blocking the Brisbane river. That way floods can be handled better are don't become so dire, also it gives us drinking water. But I guess who needs town water when they can buy Mt Franklin in plastic bottles from Coca Cola?

To subdue nature is mans crowning achievement. The poor little beavers do their best on the job but what do they know right.

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@@milogumball5755 "flood handling" look at what is happening in china. simply not true.

.. and upstream, too. I'd love to see more dams come down, especially in Oregon.

Destruction is Evil

Good comment but of course an extreme anomaly. To those people, Capitalism is almost always too sacred to compromise for anything, even the Earth's ability to support life.

I really hope that goes through.

Letting rivers flow is essential

The trick now is to get them to generate enough power for large cities like Seattle and Portland. Our dams along the Columbia aren't going to be removed anytime soon since we ship some of the electricity to Northern California. We produce too much hydroelectricity in this region.

Right on! And for hectacre of water, they are vastly more effecient

In stream hydro is going to be a lot less electricity. I'm for removing dams but there's a consequence. Use less power.

i'myourfather I'm pretty sure they used tax dollars, and that's no problem

+i'myourfather mismanagement of tax usage does not justify its impacts for the sake of saving money.

Can't Liberals leave anything alone??

Define "liberal".

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Your an idiot, all that plant was providing power for was a lumber mill

Level Joe a pedel bike from 1856 and a alternator from a 2018 Chevy Tahoe and you waking up and pedelling 5 k every day.

All. They had to do was put fish ladders in wht a waste. If they take these dams out in k falls it will be bevastating

The REAL story of the Elwha. Planting hatchery fish in streams coupled with fishing moratoriums works. It's about overfishing and poor hatchery management folks.

There was no need to. The dams didn't supply electricity to anything anymore after the paper mill they were supplying shut down.

@@liamflynn1120 had it been up graded it could have produced a lot of clean energy and a solution for the fish installed

They all tore down there homes and moved into tents. Since there were no working outlets anymore, they had to give up their iphones too which is why we don't hear from them. Salmon +1 Washington -2 Everyone outside of Washington +1