This film tells the story of The Conservation Fund's partnership with the Alaska Native Village of Eklutna to remove a deadbeat dam and restore Pacific salmon. For more information visit: www.conservationfund.org/proj....
I don’t know why RU-vids algorithm has directed me to all the dam demolitions videos but it’s wonderful.. I feel like I’m watching an “Earth Healing” taking place.. so many. It’s wonderful. Love hearing all the stories from those that are affected to those that helped undertake the demo to those that remember hearing from their families how it used to be. I hope there are updates of how it’s going over the years of rehabilitation
Many won't be anytime soon sadly, we've become dependent on them for farming, etc. The Columbia of Pacific North West had so many salmon runs you could harvest them yr around I'm told.
@@Mrbfgray if we brought back beavers, and removed all dams, we would have salmon runs back within ten years. They need a good decade of reproduction and their numbers would skyrocket. Problem is, I heard the reason so many have been dying off is because the run off has been carrying some chemical that’s in car tires into the rivers, and it causes death
The Columbia dams have been great investments and provide flood control, irrigation, and clean renewable energy. The economic value of these benefits exceeds the value of the fish many times over. The fish are still there and can co-exist with the dams. Leave the dams alone and continue to study ways to improve the fish passage.
Do they plan on passing buckets over the larger damn forever? The removal of the smaller damn didn't do much as there's another larger damn upstream blocking all the water
I've never understood how companies were allowed to just abandon structures when they were done using them. When you're done, you take it down. Why do the people always have to fight and pay for the cleanup?
Its called 'externalizing costs'. Its a capitalist term for leaving others to pay your bills. As a capitalist you are always trying to see how you can externalize (ie: put on someone else) a cost (something that loses you money'). All of this in order to maximize profits. Know thy enemy.
@@futurecaredesign you act like other economic plans don't do the same thing. Abandoning stuff is just easier in every way. Chernobyl, Detroit, the great wall of china. Its just called archeology otherwise.
Happens all the time. In Halifax there is petroleum storage facility abandoned and I fully expect the tanks have sludge. So, once again, the taxpayers will ultimately clean it up. You could have a levy they have to pay before they start, but then they will just go somewhere else. A multinational corporation is an entity onto itself, designed to avoid regulation and responsibility. They should never been allowed. However, when a gov't steps to try to stop this type of thing, they are called job killers. We get the world we deserve.
Great work We farm salmon incorrectly. If they were slimy eels that no one ate or cared about I don't think dams and riparian water sheds would be as much of a concern. But these are SALMON. It's so bad today that over 50% of our annual consumption of salmon comes from farm raised fish fed on cat food with dye added to make the meat look like salmon meat. It completely lacks the nutritional profile of a wild salmon. it's crap fish, tilapia. the proper way to farm a fish that is anadromous is to supercharge the entirety of the watershed with micro hatchery efforts. As riparian habitat is reclaimed (by the removal of a dam for instance), we must leverage our technology to the salmon's benefit. What I mean by this is rather than just open up the water way and allow the salmon to repopulate the upper watershed spawning grounds naturally, which could take centuries to fully recharge the run, use the technology of a mitigation hatchery to select wild fish for fertilizing / hatching out to the alevin stage (egg sack attached) and then release them high up in the natal spawning grounds of the water shed. Here's a good example of what Im talking about. Say you have a valuable (culturally and $$$) spring run of kings that is 'present' in the river, but not strong. They're only spawning in one tributary of 3 possible tributaries in the watershed. So, use nets or a water wheel to siphon off a hundred pairs of fish to select for reseeding one of the other tributaries in order to bolster the run. (you'll net around a million fertilized eggs) Spawn them out artificially in a mitigation hatchery but get them into the proposed natal spawning grounds of the unused tributary as soon as they are hatched out, before you anesthetize them, jam a wire in their nose and clip a fin. minimal human handling! You'll have to repeat this effort for a full cycle (4 years) to establish the run in that tributary, but now more fish are making use of the riparian environment and the total run should grow stronger. Repeat with other species and with the remainder of the tributaries that will support a spawning salmon within the water shed. (streams and such) One species helps the other. The issue with salmon spawning beds silting in is not an issue of logging roads but rather a lack of a million pairs of salmon tails excavating the gravel beds to MAKE them suitable for egg laying and fertilization. So, chum salmon, coho, pinks etc, while not as marketable as a king are equally important to the upper riparian environment. Their tails help the creation and maturation of spawning beds high up in the river watershed. Their eggs and fry and smolts all become part of the larger riparian food chain that is so important to growing large healthy salmon prior to their journey to the sea. Can you have too many salmon return to a river? how long do you want to wait to realize your recovery efforts? Opening up a river with no further human interaction is the slowest possible path to restoration that you can take. We need to intelligently leverage our technology to supercharge these natural salmon nurseries. that's how salmon farming should be done moving forward. It will benefit everyone, the tribes, the commercial guys, the recreational fishermen, the salmon and the riparian habitat that will benefit from actually having marine resources reach high up into the river system again. Thanks for reading
What a time we are in. Trying to shut down electrical power generators while we try and switch all of our vehicles to electricity, and deny nuclear power plants at the same time as well. I hope there's enough cobalt to go around for everybody. Probably not likely.
They didn't? The berm/earthen dam is upstream of the concrete dam. The next step they want is to start releasing some water from the earthen dam so the lower stream can be at least partially restored for salmon runs, etc.
We've shown over and over again that tidal turbines and wind turbines CAN replace hydro-electric dams and diversions without relying on natural gas and coal backups. The problem is making it more cost effective to use these lower impact generation sources for the major companies, rather than sticking to their current "cheap" solutions.
Wind turbines cause changing weather patterns thus destroying the area it resides in. Look up the damage along the Columbia River. Also, they account for massive losses of endangered birds. Did you know the feds allow companies to kill eagles, Hawks, condors, etc to protect the turbines?
@@mikewhitman830 Did you know you're an idiot? Did you know that turbines can't capture more than 60% of the wind energy that directly hits the turbine blades, even in the best conditions, while not impacting the flow of any air that DOESN'T hit the turbine blade? Did you know that the number of birds killed by turbines is barely more than .02% the number killed by domestic and feral cats each year? Did you know that conservatard, republicunt talking points like yours are so easy to debunk that it's painfully annoying to have to do it on such a regular basis because you dips don't ever want to actually look at the real numbers yourselves?
@@hellcat1988 I dig the psychotic rant you posted. Name calling, degrading comments, and lumping someone (who you know nothing about) into a category. Personally, I think your just passionate and misguided. Here is one link to the studies ans issues addressed with wind turbines. www.energy.gov/eere/wind/environmental-impacts-and-siting-wind-projects Here is another from Wikipedia (not a trusted source) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_wind_power. I like the reference to one article written by the Insider though. I gave you two. One from the government and one from a very liberal source. BOTH state the impact turbines have on birds, land, etc. The studies done and solutions implemented and being developed. If you'd like to look more like a self indulging moron I can obliged. Good day.
@@mikewhitman830 Good job. You just proved my argument that the impact on the environment and bird deaths is negligible when compared to fossil fuel power generation all on your own.
What did the bucket brigade accomplish? Was it purely symbolic as in ' let's get the water flowing again! ' ? Seems like a pump would have been better, but I must have missed something.
Yes and Yes. I live a mile from the eklutna river and yes we have a glacier less than 20 min from my house, we get ALL of our water from eklutna lake not the river. This stunt was a pr move and nothing more. When the natives want more money they sell off their land then bitch about it later. Dont feel sorry for them
Oil/power companies come in and give them a few bucks and they don't know they sold away their land's sole. Still happening and residents are happy with their couple thousand dollars a year.
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We took the damn off of the dowagiac Creek at pucker st in Niles Michigan and it's going to be a primer trout stream. It was before but it's going to be better.
the power companies and their gumnt flunkies are trying to find a way around their duty to get water back into that river. don't let them get away with that.
As a pure capitalist I can say this is not worth it the power company to continue to operate. The little amount of money generated vs the impact to your reputation is a no brainer. The state itself needs to push this project along. The revenue brought by the fish far outways the pittance generated by the dam. To the power company, Do yourself a favor and voluntarily shut down the plant. It's worth it.
Dams have a limited lifespan. Look at the siltation built up behind that dam. Returning highly productive waters like the Elwha River in Washington are an obvious first step and higher priority. The smaller rivers/hydro units become case by case. Yes, everyone wants to see more salmon and steelhead. Everyone also likes having electricity when they flip on the switch.
Dams are the Devil! But once removed it's amazing how quickly salmon and other river species and habit return! If mother earth is given a chance? She quickly forgets and forgives man's follies! And gets backs to what she does best! Creating a habit that's substantial that benefits both nature & mankind!
Only provides 3% of the local grid's power?! Why is there even a discussion, get that 3% from somewhere else. Heck, work to improve the rest of the grid's efficiency to cover that 3%! And, do off channel storage for the water it supplies.
That's right. We have the full capability to return to the stone-age. Not that I'd expect a bunch of wimpy wokesters to survive in the post-electric world.
Oil will always be here, intermittent power wind and solar won't cut it. Every year we have more people, thus more energy needs. If everyone in THE US today had an electric car, there is not enough power generating capacity to run all autos.
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Esperamos en europa que nos dejen utilizar el gas Ruso, para poder recuperar una ecología y que los intereses económicos, de USA y su hambre de poder, nos dejen implementar políticas medioambientales más inteligentes y regenerativas. Y amenazar con guerras y provocaciones en europa y asia, no es el camino.
This feels like a luxury belief. It is easy to complain about hydropower and drinking water when you have water to drink and power to keep it from freezing in the tap. I would ask the pioneer generation if they thought that tearing down infrastructure represented a step forward or a step back? What about the workers of today who make modern life possible? The goal here is not to tear down an already-defunct dam, but to convince the audience that the environmental preferences of people who probably do not work in industrial sectors should take precedence over drinking water and electricity. Find a cheap, carbon-neutral alternative, or stop trying to destroy the infrastructure you benefit from.
The US Government could give a rat's ass about the people. Thank all of you that care about what really matters to all the people. Dam removal is a new beginning that corrects the grave mistakes of the past... "We the People"...
What really happened was Eklutna wanted more money. It's not about the salmon at all. Most folks in that area shop at 3 bears. I've lived close by for well over 30 years. I know what it's all about to Denaina. $$$$$$.
What about the tailrace? Gonna kill the last spot in the valley to even fish. This state sucks. They closed all the rivers for king salmon and they haven’t opened in 8 years even though tons of fish come back. They don’t care about salmon for the river and sport fisherman only for commercial fishing. This whole state is owned by oil, commercial fishing and tourism.
I'll just say, if the ancestors of these native people in 1700 or 1800 had the technology to dam and power their homes this river would have been dammed for 200-300 years already. Should this be fixed? Sure. If there are other power sources available, absolutely. I just hate that people act like native people chose to keep the land respected. They just legit didn't have the numbers or the technology to interact with their environment in the same way we do now.
Can someone tell your native people, that the restoration of a river nowadays, is not primary done, for the fact, that they don't wanna spend money on food, and that's why they were crying the last 100 years, for every river that disappeared in use for Dams😉😅🤣 And their " Holly Salmon". But hey, I'll stuck a round fire water for all of them 👍😁🤣🤣