The Klamath river deserves to be natural The tribes deserve to thrive

May the work needed to remove the four dam's go smoothly for the community and the workers. But once the work is competed may the life and custom's of the American Indian not only survive but thrive for the next thousand years!

So the guy only cared about the value of the property and the counting on exactly the tribe or the people that live there and their food supply just that goes to show capitalism at its finest

OMG what a victory, not just for the tribe but for earth. It is damming that has destroyed so much land. Congratulations to the tribe!

I remember back in 2000 driving up to Requa along the north shore of Klamath River mouth is the smell of smoked salmon wafting from locals houses. Kept the car window down to enjoy it!

That guy talking about fires AND PROPERTY VALUE - I bet that he actually meant it other way round. Great effort and cheers from Czech Republic!

It's very possible and positive, but there's honestly no guarantee. You can build the river, slow it down, add rocks, etc. There isn't any guarantee that the salmon will come back in numbers. I would suggest they close the rivers from fishing for at least 3 years minimum. So many things can go wrong, but many things can also go right. I wish the state, workers and tribes the best of luck.

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Great Report. Thank you

It will help the salmon population as a whole in the Pacific Ocean as well. The Tribe is just one small part of a huge chain of organisms that will benefit. It is useful and good to not associate natural habitats with sociological or artificial boundaries since they are intrinsic to the synergy of life. The more we refer to them and their denizens as intrinsic to their territorial region the more the focus on their overall value will be.

We need to learn to build projects in coordination with NATURE and not in coordination with rich politicians and big corporations.

Back in the day, the feds built dams according to the state’s needs while never thinking about the environmental impacts of such structures.

Beautiful, return to mother nature.

well yeah if you rewild an area to a state it was in 100 or so years ago there wil also be (mostly short term) negative consequences, indeed wildfires could be a major issue at first, however if you look back you see that wildfires were always quite frequent but when we began moving to prevent them entirely we also created the conditions that caused the ones that we now see to be enormously more devastating. (though it's important to note that it is also due to a recent seemingly hybrid tendency in which the removal of dead material from forest is stopped abruptly whilst still not intending wildfires to return, these measures should be taken but they should be taken piecemeal, not all at once because now these forests are essentially either all old or all new trees, in a more mixed forest it wil be better also removing the dam no doubt wil restore former wetlands as well, in the longterm the environment wil be served by it, but again regarding certain measures these should be eased in

Let the salmon spawn then collect the bodies. I have people close to me in the Yurok & Hupa Tribes that live there. I myself have been in Hupa on the Trinity River where the Kurok tribe once lived. In a few years, the salmon will recover if they are only collected after spawning and the fertilized eggs are left alone.

About the Trinity River. A healthy river has many juvenile small fish through out its system. You see them especially during summer. The Trinity is near void of small fish. Why is this ? Trinity has ample spawning areas. But fish are not spawning in the main river. Is it good that there is many people floating the river, disturbing any fish that might be in there ?

I hope the best for them.

God Bless, stay true to your people!

Total bravo sierra ... again.

Any toxic waste in the mine materials?

Interesting news coverage . Have very Happy Thanksgiving.

Everyone should be paying attention to this this is just the beginning

Here we have a state running out of water and the nincompoops in office decide to eliminate some dams. What are you going to do in the future California when you run out of water?

I forgot to congratulate the tribe . Salmon is delicious.

Remove dams in a drought state? Lol geez will they be building more dams, then?

👏 thank you ABC for covering indigenous stories. ❤

Funny thing is the farmers in cali have signs up everywhere saying we need more dams.

Remove the dams. Let nature exist naturally.

Do the LA River next

Instead of removing the dams why don't they build a passage for the salmon to bypass the dam?

This is foolish.

Four large dams make how much electricity ? In a state with an already broken power grid. Taking them down is a good thing but like every thing else the state isn't prepared for the out come. Going Green is a good thing but maybe we could stop sending billions of dollars on Ukraine and use that money on solar and battery technology.

So beautiful thing that you’re doing I just can’t get used to seeing a native brother with a beard or goatee I guess times are changing so good and caring for mothers and that’s all it matters keep in the way of life to live see you can’t kill the Indian to save the man

I suspect the age of these dams is a major driver, but it is so nice to see Native Americans listened to. I not unsympathetic, but fire risks and property values are coming back to the builders of these things. As for water shortages like in the Colorado Basin, roughly 70% of that is agriculture and a good percentage of that goes to China. We are basically destroying our ecology over agricultural over production.

Moral of the story? Renewables such as hydroelectric, are incredibly wasteful and damaging for the environment.

I just found out boarding schools is why I don't know my native language.....

That won't be the Reason its done! Lol Don't get confused and think our government care!

These dams prevented major flooding though..... 😅

Kind of a no brainer

removing the dams, does not stop the water supply, for fighting wild fires develop a new system for accessing the water, this can be done w/ a little engineering

During a drought when we need hydroelectric for EVs It defies logic, the salmon are gone. The people are not they are more important.

Why are we so quick to blame the dams . I like to know how many salmon are coming back from the pacific.

What about farming the Salmón in indoor lakes likes Trouts, Shrimp, ect. You know the Government want to restrict the water because the west is drying and California can't live without theirs fancy pools.

The same negative arguments were used before the removal of the dams on the Elwha.

Why don't we focus on the Salmon's food first why don't we get rid of Herring fishing their main food source and fix the chemical in the tire problem that will have a bigger impact

Awesome, How many tons of CO2 are we going to add to the atmosphere to get salmon in the river and how disingenuous is it to claim this is the difference in food supply.

Dam removals gives lives not only the Native Americans, but also those who lives further down streams

It's about time.

Klameth 2ed largest river

Food insecurity is real guys worried about property values.

This makes me happy

If we can save the fish for the native Americans it would be worth all the surrounding forests to burn up for lack of water to fight the fires.? Sometimes the end just don't justify the means. Repercussions are many.

Native Americans weren't fat

Once those dams are completely removed there wont be anything left of that water supply it will be down to alittle stream when things level out I would be willing to bet they will almost dry up at times in the near future

How about not netting all of the first down river and they will thrive. How’s it going to work with California droughts in the summer? There will be no water for the fish. How about record rainfall like this year? Flooding of so many homes. California already doesn’t have enough power for the people now and in a few short years only EV’s being sold but let’s pull out good clean power…… makes so much sense.

A short news segment cannot address the full breadth of issues surrounding salmon recovery. But this spot is so narrow as to ignore the many region-wide environmental, economic, and social benefits salmon provide, benefits dams take away. Not that salmon recovery for the benefit of Klamath indigineous people isn't important enough, but healthy Klamath basin salmon runs will benefit coastal communities far beyond the basin itself. And any cardiologist will tell you, we should all be eating more salmon and fewer burgers.

Without the dam, how do they irrigate for crops? How do they provide drinking water? How do they control the river when flooding?

Do it already

P that was not an insightful report to tell the whole story

Cool...'bout time.

our wonderful economic policies have all but killed the Chesapeake bay and puget sound and so many dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico . hope that they can get this right and restore just a few rivers for all the destruction that has been done to what was once long ago

Couldn’t they create a series of fish weirs (mini damns) to slow the water but still keep it open to salmon? That is actually a traditional indigenous practice.

So if they can't fish they face food insecurity and need government assistance? Why can't they go to a grocery store?

I'm so sick of talk. Remove the dams already. But first get rid of the spiny ray fish above the dams before they wash down the main river establish themselves and eat up all the small steelhead and salmon.

Damn

I happen to live next to this reservation wonder why they don't talk about in the 90s when they got all their tribal money and they built all those brand new beautiful houses and got all those new pickup trucks and within a year the houses had no doors or Windows animals walking in and out of the houses and brand new pickups up on blocks and front yards that look like they lived in the yard not the house or the violence that comes from this tribe still to this day

Go to the store like everyone else in America, or go live in a tepe.

Bout goddamn time

Energy prices will sky rocket. I pray there are no blackouts throughout the winter. Keep voting democrat. We never learn & deserve everything we get.

I want everyone to work with the reservations all of the reservations because of the fish population not just in one half of the United States but the whole United States there used to be the same type of fish in one part of the United States to the other part of the United States all the riverbeds and everything else

Let it burn its natural it will grow back

That face tat tho

The stupid shall be punished. Lol

Yeah well, only in the end will humanity realize oil cannot quench thirst and money cannot be eaten.

I hope these tribe members didn’t build their homes too close to the river? With the dams gone there will be no means of flood control.

The only thing this will do is enable a increase in gillnet usage and the demise of the salmon.

And if you don't believe my last comment go down there to Northern California Southern Oregon walk through the reservation on a Friday or Saturday night or anytime late in the evening let us know what your experience was and you don't even have to get on the reservation just get close

Sorry settler your County is threatened

Typical human, they don't realize something is bad until it's too late and rush to fix it and makes more problems

No it wont

I remember when West Virginia and Maryland used to have salmon over so many years you do not find no salmon in the rivers or even you don't talk to him at all if you find one salmon it is very rare it was placed there that is how bad it is

"Could" means "we don't actually know if the taxpayer money spent to destroy the dam will solve the problem, but at least we feel better about ourselves."

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Break 👏🏽 That 👏🏽 Dam

Those native people look well fed...

The dams aren’t the problem!! It’s the over fishing everywhere, part of a natural evolution. Why have the salmon and chinook runs decreased so much in coastal rivers also. There are many of those rivers that have never had dams and their runs are diminishing also.

Wow... what a project and hope all goes to plan 🐳🐳🐳 and for the " fires" wy not prepare now and build a reservoir just in case its cheaper then rebuilding the whole place ... good luck folks 🇨🇦

REMOVE TRHOSE DAMS!!! #Elwha

The tribe had to adapt to the destruction of the river and the endangering of the salmon; therefore, the others need to adapt to living without the water reservoirs. You build in a fire prone area, then adjust your building codes and stop building with wood or don’t rebuild after the fires destroy the entire town.

طاب يومكم اعزائي الملائكة يصرف لكل 100 يوم ارضي القادمة خمس خزنات من المال أو الذهب أو المجوهرات أربعة خزنات منها لجميع الملائكة تقسم بينهم بالتساوي .وخزنة واحدة لجميع نساء الجنة والحور العين تقسم بينهم بالتساوي . مستشار الخالق

Good for them! 👏Gotta stand up for what you believe in.

Really.hope they don't get rid of the dams.i. Washington

Why the heck not just give them a hundred million dollars and let em buy tuna fish in the can… that’d be a four hundred million dollar savings,,, it’s a win win….

If the "tribes" would stop wholesale netting the salmon by the thousands, there wouldn't be such a "problem."

About dam time

They’re so traditional but they have American names 😂😂… and his last name is meyers… he’s no engine

Maybe the salmon wouldn't disappear if they stopped eating them. Hey go to the grocery store or better yet go to Arby's where the meat is. Lol

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Damn those dams! Remove them!

Salmon, as a living creature, may be one of the best foods humans can eat. Scottish people feel that way, where the northern seas are the northern salmon fishing grounds going back to the Garden of Eden. Let me explain. Salmon are born fresh-water creatures. When they leave their birth-place and enter the ocean, talking about Pacific sockeye salmon, they change into salt-water creatures. Scientists don't know if this happens immediately or if it takes time. Despite swimming all over the Pacific, and surviving, these salmon will find their way back to the birthplace to lay eggs. Being back in fresh water distorts their metabolism, and they die. Humans are half fresh-water as our bodies and we're still salt water in our blood. Eating salmon helps to bridge that difference. There are two different kinds of food. Food that is pre-digested or not digested. Eating another animals is getting the chemicals that animal turned food into, and what it turns you into after eating it. When you eat undigested food your body turns it into the chemicals you need. If all you did was eat meat you would die. When you pick and eat food while it's living you absorb that energy of living, as important as nutrients. Many languages have a word to describe that. The English language, and the watered-down American, don't.