Largest dam removal project in U.S. history aims to help revive America’s salmon population

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The largest dam removal project in U.S. history is happening along the Klamath River, which flows from southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean. The project serves a crucial role in helping to revive America’s salmon population. Last year, the Pacific salmon season was canceled.
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@ericf9531 Месяц назад

The dams weren't taken down due to an ecological reason or to conservation reasons, it was only taken down due to the company's losing money. Doing the right thing for the completely wrong reasons.

@terrellbradshaw3504 Месяц назад

This 💯

@200555280 Месяц назад

Money talk the loudest. Its costs to demolish the dam. Let’s celebrate this anyway.

@carlsaganlives6086 Месяц назад

Still a victory, right?

@Clark42EoC Месяц назад

That's false. It was native American fishing rights and its only happening because of a Yurok lawyer fighting hard for it.

@silentmajority8365 Месяц назад

@@Clark42EoC More like 28 dollars a pound rights

@kellypennix8745 Месяц назад

They didn’t care.

@Swalker20659 Месяц назад

They didn’t give a dam.

@MaekarManastorm Месяц назад

They still don't

@Deeplycloseted435 Месяц назад

So it has nothing to do with the environment, salmon, or the people that depend on the river, rather they are outdated and inefficient at producing electricity? That checks out.

@carbonking53 Месяц назад

59% of Canada's power comes from hydroelectric power.

@liamjohnson2474 Месяц назад

We did this with the Elwha river in Washington. The Salmon returned, as did almost all the native species and the vital spawning grounds were restored. We have already proved that dam removal works, now all we have to do is save the fisheries

@LilliLamour Месяц назад

That's wonderful.

@joshuauriarte452 Месяц назад

It also raises water levels back to their natural levels.

@johnwscarpenter Месяц назад

This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Something is deeply wrong here with the logic and reasoning of dam removal. A dam is simply a tool for controlling water flow. It is in no way the fault of the dam that salmon stocks are down. It is water management, or the lack thereof, downriver that is the culprit. Too much water use, disparate water pricing between agricultural, industrial, and residential use. The never ending fights over water rights. These are the issues that must be addressed, which must include the needs of natural and commercial fish hatcheries. Removing a dam is pointless and takes away a valuable asset in water management and control. Foolish. (ps. duplicate post above)

@pitichiaba Месяц назад

How long did it take to restore the salmon population?

@danielwhyatt3278 Месяц назад

That is absolutely brilliant. I hope this one can also be a huge success.👏🏼

@ritamariekelley4077 Месяц назад

Thank You for all of your hard work. I'm so happy for you that it's finally happening.I wish you many years to enjoy the river you rescued.

@IanCthrwd Месяц назад

Business suit with tennis shoes…..

@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1 Месяц назад

I bet you’re the type to have a disgusted look on your face and stare at someone for way too long because they have blue hair🤣

@IanCthrwd Месяц назад

Nope. Sure you want to look good on camera…least he wasn’t wearing black knee-high socks and sandals.

@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1 Месяц назад

@@IanCthrwd I’m sure if he looked unprofessional, someone would’ve told him before going in front of the camera.

@robmilovich Месяц назад

Its a good start. But we need to somehow deal with all of the foreign commercial fishing boats, of the over harvesting that is done just outside of the international waters (12 miles) off our shores.

@davidsalo8397 Месяц назад

There are many reasons for the downfall of Chinook salmon, up and down the coast. Even in Alaska where dams do not exist. Let's look at the big picture.

@budm2528 Месяц назад

You should look up Exclusive Economic Zone for starters, international treaties as well, then I'd love to see your "data" on the foreign overharvesting taking place of US shores.

@bardigan1 Месяц назад

@@davidsalo8397 I think that was the point.

@andyjohnson3790 Месяц назад

Sea Shepard to the rescue

@brianag9726 Месяц назад

Thank you for this story! I will be sharing it with my 5th graders tomorrow. They are following this project since I made them aware of the issue a few weeks ago we had a debate about whether the dams should be removed or not.

@JayBee-cr8jm Месяц назад

They posted this story on the internet to generate revenue. CBS News is profit driven media.

@loragunning5394 Месяц назад

Um...kinda a moot point, given that the decision to remove the dams has already been made and the processes involved are already ongoing. What would have been more of a lesson to your 5th graders, IMO, is to debate the issue back when the decisions to remove the dams had not yet been made. That being said, I do applaud your bringing attention to the minds of our younger generations both the pros and cons, and the consequences, of what these types of major decisions entail. Critical thinking is not always a life skill taught in school these days.

@halfdome4158 Месяц назад

😂Perhaps you should read up on the Klamath dam disaster. The removal results are an ecological disaster. All brought to you by crooked dems. Kids should know what happens when crooks are in charge.The California Globe.has been covering this. Utter destruction, death and fraud.

@pilot41186 Месяц назад

Proof teachers are flawed

@halfdome4158 Месяц назад

@@pilot41186 My comment deleted because the news story lied. Look at the California Globe newspaper online for results of what happened when they destroyed the Klamath dams. An Environ disaster.

@griffinspeak2159 Месяц назад

Thank You Leif ❤

@lifeisgood7719 Месяц назад

Thank you Native people! Power to the people!

@randiclark1 Месяц назад

Yes! The best is yet to come! Good reporting.

@rubyquail Месяц назад

Thank God. Been wishing for this for decades.

@FlyTech541 Месяц назад

I’ve fished the upper Klamath in all my videos and I can say it was the most beautiful place ever catching 20 trout watching fish eat on this river was amazing I love the Klamath river

@Swalker20659 Месяц назад

That's a big dam job.

@seeharvester Месяц назад

I had a big dam job this morning. It must have been all that fiber I had yesterday.

@koholohan3478 Месяц назад

This is so wonderful.

@wildlyunrulyadventures3942 28 дней назад

"They would have known that had they asked us. But nobody asked us." May the salmon thrive once again. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@brianhoefer7148 Месяц назад

I grew up in that area. There used to be far more rain fall and snow fall in the early 1980's. I have snowmobiled Northern Siskiyou County every month of the year in the early 80's. That will never happen again for decades.

@davidsalo8397 Месяц назад

The upper Klamath basin has been a hot spot for reduced precipitation recently. In effect, climate change has targeted this area. The conflict between farmers in the upper basin and biological needs will continue. Another aspect of the situation that doesn't get discussed.

@harleyv1969 Месяц назад

He said their best days are ahead of them....❤❤❤😊. ... FAITH HOPE LOVE

@camarogirl1369 Месяц назад

This is an awesome story!! The State of Utah is looking at saving the Great Salt Lake, I hope that will happen! They also need to save the Bonneville Salt Flats since there is tons of salt being lost and not replaced naturally. We are our own worst enemy.

@js9522 Месяц назад

The main issue with the Great Salt Lake is the more than 1 million people that have moved to Utah in the past 20 years. Much of the water that used to feed into the Great Salt Lake is being diverted to supply water to this dramatic increase in population.

@edwardolaie Месяц назад

Amazing

@ryanbarry899 Месяц назад

God bless those who suffered from that dam, and all the other dams too. Water reservoirs can be built underground where evaporation isn’t an issue, also greenhouse gases from microbial organisms would be cut significantly.

@peterstevens6555 Месяц назад

Kia Ora & Good Afternoon from Unsworth Heights, North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand ... Another Great Video Bro.

@jeromedamian5740 Месяц назад

I'm so grateful it finally came true the natives have been fighting for decades upon decades and generations upon generations to have that dam removed. I remember in 2002 when they shut off the water, and they killed thousands upon thousands of salmon , steelhead, and trout . I walked that river of death. All for greed . They need to shut down the salmon fisheries for a while until the population is at a substantial balance again.

@joemanly9519 Месяц назад

Thank God

@silentmajority8365 Месяц назад

Yeah Salmon $28 dollars a pound

@C_A_B Месяц назад

what does that guy have to do with it?

@hotttt28 Месяц назад

Tennis shoes ?

@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1 Месяц назад

Tennis shoes are a thing, believe it or not😮

@tomclayton6875 Месяц назад

They say there was a time when salmon ran so thick you could cross the river and never touch bottom. The dam builders didn't care about the natives, in fact they did what they could, just like with the buffalo, to deny a native population of their main source of food. Maybe they're taking down the dams now for monetary reasons, but the chance now presents itself to restore a once bountiful river. I hope other projects will follow. Even places like the Salton Sea could spectacularly be turned into a healthy body of water if inlets and outlets could be connected to the Pacific. That would transform a whole section of the state into something productive rather than the wasteland we've let it become.

@woodsonjane Месяц назад

A good story!

@jimkelehan1366 Месяц назад

Good! Live in harmony with nature!

@andrewromero5008 Месяц назад

It has taken decades, but man can correct his mistake.

@j.salaslilkingdom9891 Месяц назад

The rivers are the arteries of the planet and we’re clogging them

@josephkanakry7040 Месяц назад

Great to see them undo the problems they created

@bobenton8841 Месяц назад

Thank Goodness!! 🙌

@ralphieboy9596 Месяц назад

TRULY AND TOTALLY!!! Make America great again and give the land back to the people.

@diyjeff1838 Месяц назад

Which people?

@lagodelbago Месяц назад

If that is in reference to Trump, he wants to build more dams not tear them down.

@diyjeff1838 Месяц назад

@@lagodelbago hydroelectric damns are the best forms of generating clean power. Trump sounds smart.

@lagodelbago Месяц назад

@@diyjeff1838 we need a healthy balance between the environment and power, including an upgrade to our outdated electric grid. Trump would provide none of that

@diyjeff1838 Месяц назад

@@lagodelbago democrats have done none of that. Infrastructure has completely been destroyed under democrat policies. Name one aspect of this country that has improved over the last 4 years.

@kellyemmanuel6888 Месяц назад

What an awesome story to hear! Thank you so much for fighting that fight. Each One Teach One🌎

@Clark42EoC Месяц назад

Thank the Yurok tribe.

@CaesarBro Месяц назад

Klamath Lake has farming lobby runoff making it unsafe to swim in. That’s what’s coming down the river.

@bobzelley5100 Месяц назад

the utility company was done with the four dams and were smart to get others to think it was their idea and made the rate payers pay $ 500 million.

@forestc6014 Месяц назад

Put on some dam dress shoes at work, Chad. Those sneakers look like you’ve been living in a van down by the Klamath.

@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1 Месяц назад

Someone’s choice of shoes has really affected you. You need a hug?

@Ry_Guy Месяц назад

Did someone say free hugs?! Count me in

@mmca2622 Месяц назад

Yeah, there's something to be said for looking professional at work. I wouldn't wear dress shoes with sweats to work out at the gym, and I wouldn't wear tennies with a dress suit to my job on a national news show. There's also something to be said for norms.

@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1 Месяц назад

@@mmca2622 it’s just a pair of shoes…

@mmca2622 Месяц назад

@@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1 No, it's not. It's a pair of sport shoes in a professional work place. Appearances matter.

@christopherarizola1071 Месяц назад

Thats awesome bringing back wildlife ❤❤

@sallytidwell7804 Месяц назад

Best wishes for the people who are dependent on the river and the surrounding area of it! This Earth 🌎 Day they can celebrate!

@JosephPetrie-ud2wh Месяц назад

Wonderful news.

@Maybe1Someday Месяц назад

Damn...

@gregmiller9710 Месяц назад

very good!

@marchingovertheedge 27 дней назад

Make America have Great Dad's again

@Milesfrode Месяц назад

Quit using decimated incorrectly!...unless its only reduced by 10% (Long Live The Klamath!!!)

@rosethornil Месяц назад

So true. It’s like the word “peruse” which means “to study intensely.” People use “peruse” as a synonym for “browse.” English is fast becoming a lost art.

@KJ-vc3sw Месяц назад

Whatever the road to get here, this is encouraging news. Nature has the right to exist on its own terms, and for its own purposes. The proper role of human beings is to work in community with nature, not to master, plunder, exploit, and destroy.

@reneeparker7475 Месяц назад

More dams need to be removed, especially in the PNW.

@thedivide3688 Месяц назад

65 were removed in 2022, 80 were removed in 2023. More are getting removed than installed. Potentially some 30,000 dams are past their prime and not doing much so about 1/3 of the current live dams might likely be on the chopping block eventually.

@PhaseSkater Месяц назад

exactly! we need more coal plants out here!

@JabezGill 15 дней назад

“We believe it may be the largest damn removal…” Damn, they’re right… that’s a large removal.

@99problemsbutafishaintone35 23 дня назад

Great News!

@williamleonardbaker8279 Месяц назад

I love the weather

@uwrossl Месяц назад

It's a dam shame they didn't listen but it makes for good dam story

@nolongerblocked6210 Месяц назад

It's about time

@Xxxxxrrr6464 Месяц назад

Good on them for making it right

@jjrr2273 Месяц назад

They are ZFG for 'doing right' they are 100% profit driven

@SeeLasSee Месяц назад

To be fair, my small supposedly progressive city in Maryland never asks us before destroying old trees that are healthy or diverting streams. It’s institutional culture. The management and bureaucratic class.

@tjnorrisofficial Месяц назад

AMAZING story. And one of the best places to white water raft as well.

@jordyb57 Месяц назад

How disrespectful!!

@paulzeigler7616 Месяц назад

Is that news cast person actually wearing sneakers with a suit? What a clown.

@KK-nl6zq Месяц назад

Please bring down the price of sushi. I love salmon

@jamesspalten5977 Месяц назад

Go Fish.

@tkyap2524 Месяц назад

Building and removing, both cost plenty. In the end, better to leave nature alone.

@kaseyc5078 Месяц назад

Yea let’s not ever build anything….

@nlp6082 Месяц назад

Great story that I hope ends well.

@denniscarver7681 Месяц назад

What does it mean for the flooding issues? Costs alot to put back.

@jeremyjackson8196 Месяц назад

How things used to be. WOAH

@ALLforROME Месяц назад

"Soooo is this a damn damn or a god damn" - Beavis

@petermazzella346 19 дней назад

They did not show any pictures of the massive amounts of silt that have been released, which have smother the river bottom and banks. Why not?

@Memessssss Месяц назад

Nice

@jdebell7068 Месяц назад

Now just get rid of the hoover dam

@silentmajority8365 Месяц назад

TRANSLATION fishing industry need twenty dollar a pound Salmon

@ronkirk5099 Месяц назад

It will take a while for all the sediment build up to be flushed out, but restoration will happen eventually.

@chriskelly6559 Месяц назад

If we give this part of earth back to Mother, she'll fix it.

@sallytidwell7804 Месяц назад

Restoration of the Intended flow!

@waynebrowning3416 Месяц назад

Dam what a story

@POLLUSKY Месяц назад

Not until the financials were affected is that they think of nature. Typical corporation.

@kenhurley4441 Месяц назад

So when the lights go out they'll wish they had the dams back.

@adsrentals 26 дней назад

It will work until California redirects the water to southern California instead of the Pacific.

@mattparlante6680 Месяц назад

"Climate Watch?'"....... Like watching snow melt

@jamesgizasson Месяц назад

What an ironic choice of words! XD

@Honest-Words Месяц назад

Oh, you mean undoing man's ideas because it is affecting the earth? Weird

@michaelmurphy6195 Месяц назад

After fifty five years I moved from California to Texas. When I crossed the Colorado River for the last time it looked like an open sewer. I never looked back.

@user-High-IQ769 Месяц назад

About time, clean that river up and get the fish running again, as they should

@russellhopson1658 Месяц назад

The rivers will never be the same. If and when you take the Dam down. There is yo much silt being held by the dam.😮

@lauriekash3980 Месяц назад

Nature has rules Hope for the best.

@reversalmushroom Месяц назад

Why did the dams start generating little power? That doesn't make sense. I've never heard that before. The amount of power a building generates isn't going to go down; the dams should generate the same amount of power the entire time.

@saoirsecameron Месяц назад

Cost of upkeep to aging infrastructure does go up over time, so with a flat rate of energy generation and increasing rate of maintenance eventually they became economically unfeasible.

@diyjeff1838 Месяц назад

This has been a total joke. More wasted momey.

@matthew3136 Месяц назад

Healthy Rivers are a good thing.

@MrMosesnijmeh Месяц назад

No one really understands what their actions are going to do to damage the area. They are totally unaware of their actions. This totally sucks because it is more about irrational emotional beliefs vs logical reasons.

@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1 Месяц назад

What is going to damage the area?

@dawsondethlefs5266 19 дней назад

There ya go more expensive electricity

@GymLone Месяц назад

sucks that it was the fact that they were no longer making money that inspired this. humans man...

@RayTay02 Месяц назад

"Where can I get some dam bait?" (If you know, you know).

@Gn4rkillz Месяц назад

Where can I get some dam bait???

@reversalmushroom Месяц назад

If water is still being diverted to farms, then won't the river still be at lower capacity?

@shalomes2012 20 дней назад

Release of the sediment killed 850,000 salmon

@XenophiliusScheissbock Месяц назад

I could have told Sleepy Joe that cancelling the Keystone Pipeline would cause many job losses. But nobody asked me.

@toddweaver2704 10 дней назад

Ok as a reporter you would think CBS would have talked a little about how the electricity from 4 dams was replaced. Did they build 4 coal power plants, natural gas, wind, solar, What are the economic impacts is there less electricity in the system. Does it cost more to electrify the area? You are mad that no one did an environmental impact, but no one is doing an economic impact. Saying four dams produced so little power does not tell you how much was subtracted, it also did not touch on what could have been done to make dams more efficient. I mean we are all typing on electrified gadgets are we asking were that power came from? Lot more than CBS reported. Pretty poor journalism from the point of Who, what, when, were, what effects.

@stephenjacks8196 Месяц назад

Geothermal on Oregon's volcanic Cascade Mountains would substitute for the dams.

@chinookvalley Месяц назад

For whatever reason this is being done, it is a start. Bring back habitat for ALL of Nature.

@russellbowen3238 Месяц назад

Electricity is just a bonus. The dams were built for flood control.

@georgehaydukeiii6396 Месяц назад

You have it backwards Russell! It's the other way around, trust me, I live there and have worked on those dams for many years!😅

@davidsalo8397 Месяц назад

There are few people that live in the floodplain on the Klamath River downstream. No cities are at risk of flooding. Faulty argument.

@PeteCH701 Месяц назад

As has been already stated- those dams were not used for water management.

@user-yn9fj7kj2n Месяц назад

In the 40s the farmers started using ground water for crops and it was believed that the farmers would use too much water and there would not be enough water for humans and animals.How many people looked at the archived news to see what was happening around Klamath Falls before the dams the damns were built?

@tenaguin1054 Месяц назад

Living in that area in Northern California, 1989 to 1994, the Salmon was an issue then so curious why it took them so long? The Salmon need as much help as possible, Human interference is having far to much affect globally. We need to think beyond ourselves and our luxeries just because we to get something. Save the Salmon in the Klamath River.

@x-men69-96 Месяц назад

Why don’t you restock them? Add more babies to the river

@jojopuppyfish Месяц назад

Farm raised fish seem to react to the wild different than wild fish. In otherwords, farm raised fish to restock the rivers is a bad idea

@x-men69-96 Месяц назад

@@jojopuppyfish nah, you add them as babies. There will be no diff

@eh3477 Месяц назад

Salmon fry are released into most major CA salmon streams in order to assist their populations. Once the stream conditions have settled down, they will probably be planted by next year. Salmon fry are raised in hatcheries, often regulated/run by state fish & wildlife agencies, and are different from "farm raised" adult fish, which are often found in somewhat toxic environmental conditions, and are not supposed to be released into the wild.

@dc1544 Месяц назад

They are mainly doing this to save Orcas. There is a breed of Orca whales that only eat Salmon at certain times of year and no salmon means they go extinct. Many do not know but there are many different breeds of Orcas with big DNA differences which means they eat different foods.

@SAGUY1971 Месяц назад

Will be amazing to see this river following its natural course , hopefully repopulated with salmon in a few years time . Def a good feel story.

@mtbalpinecounty Месяц назад

💪

@jameslasswell5821 Месяц назад

Commercial fishing is the problem

@inigomontoya8943 Месяц назад

Now, to protect those salmon from Asia-based commercial fishing, which have zero catch limits.

@jjrr2273 Месяц назад

Stop buying the product - the market ALWAYS has the last word

@inigomontoya8943 Месяц назад

@@jjrr2273 this is true, but I don’t live in Asia. There are some of the most advanced commercial vessels in the world complete with factory packaging ships right off of our shores.