Restoring Balance - Klamath River Renewal Project 

I'm proud and thankful of the tribe

This should be a series.Would love to watch weekly updates.

It's about dam time...

Such a beautiful moment in time when the great state of California collaborates with the First Nation's tribal historical expertise. Having the First Nation's collaboration is vital & assures the transition to a sustainable ecosystem. Kudos!

Grateful for the restoration. Sad that we caused it in the first place 😕 So much of what humanity has done is being “restored”, because we found out it was better before we messed with it!

I'm excited for the Klamath River ecosystem coming back just like the Elwha has

The dams are coming down and the river will run free, but that is only one step. Now the streams must be restored and beavers must be restored to their natural habitats.

Great short doc guys!

I'm inspired by these men and women who really CARE for the world in which we live. Deep respect. I hope the rest of the world wakes up before it is too late.

Bring the beavers!!!!

After hearing rumors about removing Klamath River dams, it is so nice to see it happening! Thank you all. PS I agree, a monthly series would be great ❤

when the world feels like it is too much, i turn to nature restoration videos, great video!

Incredible project. Virtually everything you would want in a 2023 sustainability project! This is the kind of initiative and passion that makes me proud to be American. No one screws up like we do, but no one cares like we do!

Once the dams are gone though you will be making a huge mistake if you try to control the routes of the water, nature will take over and you gotta let it. We've learned this lesson time and time again with water flow.

Excellent presentation. I have been excited about the Klamath River renewal since I first heard about it. Grateful for the Yurok, Hoopa, and other Native people that fought to remove these dams!!

I cannot imagine the thrill of the people’s in the Klamath watershed as the dam removals and seed collection taking place. Congratulations for so many years of struggling that it has taken.

This is excellent, not just the dam removal, but the way this video presents not just the ecological value of restoration, but the spiritual value as well.

😊This is a beautifully done video- and so important for thousands of people and our Earth! Different groups and entities WORKING TOGETHER!! Fantastic ❤‼️

So excited to see this finally happening and look forward to updates as the project progresses.

removing the dams will breath life back into this great river, looking forward for this year

Wishing you every success with this ambitious and valuable project. May it be followed by many more!

Excellent film! Thank you.

Great video and great initiative. Good luck!

This is great! I hope they also remove the antiquated dam on the Trinity. 60 years ago I swam, fished, and lived on the Trinity River at my grandparents place near Willow Creek. I would so much love to see the Klamath and Trinity drainages restored for future generations to enjoy; repair the damage these unnecessary impediments have caused.

Native seed farming is amazing. Shame most people don't appreciate nature.

would be awesome to see an update eventually!!

Lol, Klamath lake is 8’ deep. Hot as hell in the summer. U guys screwed us, Thanks

So interesting... Life returning!

This is going to change so much of the ecosystem up and down that River for hundreds of miles. This could even cause a lot of damage. It will take decades and even a different generation to find out exactly what difference is going to be made by removing the dams. Let's all hope for the best

Absolutely love this

How Human Nature Works Human nature is the desire to receive, also called “desire to enjoy,” and it functions by receiving what is beneficial to itself and rejecting what is harmful. Everything in our lives is built upon this calculation where we first try to distance ourselves from harm, and then seek how to draw ourselves closer to what is beneficial. Human nature also includes a multilayering of systems that work simultaneously on still, vegetative, animate and human levels. One of those systems is our bodily one, which operates involuntarily. If our bodies are healthy, then they know what is good for them and draw that goodness to themselves. After the bodily system, there is the emotional system, which also functions relatively according to instinct. From the emotional system, we move to the mind, and from the mind to the intellect, and so on. That is, we have systems over systems that concurrently work on receiving what is beneficial and rejecting what is harmful. Such is human nature and the essence of our lives. Our every desire, thought and action operates according to the calculation, “How can we receive what is most beneficial to us and reject what is harmful?”

Klamath national wildlife refuge (NWR) need some of that water as well. give it some to save waterfowl and other creatures.

total cool for a way forward>>>>>>>Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEC) integrated in with: Western Science, Citizen Science The Big 3. TEC is the Local Tribes to bring back their land MANAGEMENT for restoration in collaboration with Western Science and Citizen Science as a PARTNERSHIP/COOPERATION. WAY TO GO TRIBAL FOLKS DOING THIS GREAT PROJECT.

So cool

Terrace the old resivour sides to slow erosion, Plant in maze like pattern for the deer and other wild life to have safe spaces to nest

All I can say is "Hell yeah!"

... so you want to connect the Klamath River to Klamath Lake which is an 8 to 15 ft deep warm water lake full of algae sucker fish and Sturgeon ? And you're certain that this is a good idea ??

Hopefully they remove the dams on the Skagit River as well

Is there a way to make a fourth the size dam to still make a little power

I am Adopted onto a Hoopa family and I see the excitment of the nations along the Klamath for the dam removals but I dont see the nations returning to old ways and subsistence fishing on the river i see the indians allowed to harvest salmon in ways not allowed by anyone else and marketing them from icechests in the beds of pickups ,hope it all works out in the end

It's sad, the animals can not get to the water without dying in the mud. They didn't think it through. Heart broken !

Electricity can be generated by the river without a damn...

and yet, they don't care about any resident that are retired in copco lake

Keep hatcheries off the river! Salmon/steelhead hatcheries are the death of wild fish, keep hatcheries away from quality spawn habitat!

With only removing 4 of the 6 dams it seems like it won't really change conditions for fish. Am I wrong?

Instead of concrete dams - Decentralized water retention landscapes. We can have the power generation, water storage, and ecological health and habitat all at the same time it's a question of building in a natural way look into Sepp Holzer's work in Tamera, Portugal and read Victor Schauberger. Comprehend and Copy nature!!

The Klamath River is a sewer now! This killed everything in it. There won't be Fishing in that River for many decades. I really hope they really know what they doing. What a Mess!

How do such small groups have the power to take out 4 dams created decades ago to improve flood control

What about the tons of DDT YOU HAVE BEEN DUMPING FROM THE DAMS .THE MUD BEHIND ALL THESE DAMS

So people don't need electricity anymore. That's good news.

So we need to have MORE re-newables....and you are destroying dams? For some fish? Hmmm......

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Res should be put out of business. I can’t believe Dam Removal is an actual thing people are happy about.

This project makes me more upset than happy

Do white people get to net fish?

At 3:28 they show a large dead salmon as an example of fish kill by algae bloom. That salmon has already been to sea. It came back to spawn and has probably done so somewhere in the river basin. Its death is what occures naturally. It is misrepresetation like this which makes people distrust.

I hope these natural organic fish, don't mix with them GMO fish, that was set free into the river systems.

Those dams were built for a reason. The salmon population were never affected they will always be salmon in the Klamath river

So, they wish to have the dams removed but are probably not prepared (yet) to renounce to their standard of living. Hydro production of power is the most ecological gesture you can do to mitigate climate warming. While I understand that there is more to dam removal than just enabling salmon to lay eggs higher up and the full ecosystem will benefit, what is the value of this if climate warming is increasing because e of this? I find this report somewhat partisan, if not naive but certainly presents facts in a truncated way.

There was a reason dams were there in the first place. To generate electricity and to store fresh water for human to consume as population in CA increase. Restoring nature is good, but it seems you only tell part of the store. What will happen ti population when these dams are gone. Is there desalination of seawater in place? What is the alternative for generating electricity? If you can answer these two question, you are likely to create another disaster in the name of restoring nature.

Nothing says "living" like when you net a fish, end it's life and it never gets to fulfill it's purpose.

If you stop eating fish and over fishing we wouldn’t have a salmon problem in the Klamath

It is so great to see the native communities involved in these restoration projects, though, they should be allowed to sit back and have the colonizers do all the hard work under their guidance.

As a Native, I’m wondering why are all the head biologist, engineers and program managers white? I get the feeling the local tribes are being used to help with the agenda of removing the dams. Not one mention of the invasive species that are killing over 90% of the fry before they even get to the ocean. This is not about saving the fish but that’s what they want everyone to think. These people will turn their back on the tribes the moment our purpose is served. I have questions about the “science” they claim is being used to restore the waterways.

It’s not as hard as they make it out to be. Blow the dams and get nature do it’s thang

Terrible. We are in a bad drought the population and farmers cannot get the needed water. And you are destroying reservoirs. That is criminal.

I’d probably be down to support you guys if you didn’t slice my tires because I’m “fishing on your land” but you guys keep doing stuff like that and no one will help you

Then make the nets like your ancestors.

Flood control will be lost, and irrigation water no longer stored. Those dams were built for a reason. Consequences to humans must also be considered. CA has a manmade water shortage and an unreliable power grid so why are they removing existing sources? If the dams and hydro plants need fixing, fix them. Removing them ignores human needs. The vast majority of the abundant CA water flows to the ocean instead of being stored for use in dry years. This water year we've had catastrophic flooding and over 8 years' worth of water supply has already gone to the ocean with 2-3 more months of snowmelt pending. Wasted water because we do not have enough large water storage that also acts as flood control, Why are they planning to send even MORE water to the ocean without storing it for use first? Taxpayers are actually funding this dam destruction with money from Prop 1, which was passed in 2014 by 68% of the voters - very bipartisan - by telling voters we would get MORE water storage. How does dam removal - which the regional population does not support - even qualify for funding?