I worked with American Rivers and California Trout to restore a creek on my property on the Eel River. It is amazing to see the change that happens. That project was nowhere near the scope of the Klamath River project. I am so happy to see this happening. As a child I saw huge salmon runs. They are all gone now. In such a short time we have completely altered the west coast from a thriving food forest to cities and dams. Great thanks to the Yurok people. I hope you shall prosper from this event for the next thousand years.

Outstanding news. We got rid of the Elwa dams a decade ago. Its all good now.

Thanks for the excellent coverage of this. While I do feel for the few hundred folks that bought "lakefront" property, in my opinion this will benefit far more people, wildlife, and the environment so I see it as a net-positive overall.

Mother nature thanks you for restoring habitat.

We’re doing this all around the country here in the UK & it’s making a huge difference to fish stocks! 👍

why talk to an invisible man in the sky when you can talk to a river.

YEAHHHHH!!! About friggin time. Get some beavers. Let's vote to make sure all dams are yanked out...

Why stop here!? Let’s take down the Whiskeytown dam and Shasta too! Thanks for the excellent one sided coverage!

Well, well..i will be dam.

if water is needed for irrigation,it's still there and can be managed to meet needs and still give salmon a chance for survival

Along side 680 in Walnut Creek in the City of Walnut Creek the Chinook Salmon are blocked by a 13 foot dam. A fish ladder would be an easy fix. Maybe with some media attention Contra Costa County would do something about it. It a known problem that is being ignored.

The River is my church too.

People don't understand how important these fish are, for the land and people they effect..... Hopefully this will be the norm on all these dams that absuluty serve no purpose in this day in age

This next decade will have an abundance to cherish from the creator 💕. And those people will have happiness the ones that will be moving .

On my opinion, it's finally time and fair enough for the people to leave around it. Like many other things in life, things has to change on this will be for the better.

Give us the Salmon back❗️

Hallelujah! 🙌🙌👏👏👍👍

This is so very wonderful. And the residents that stick around will watch it flourish; they'll have property overlooking a river, a healthy river, not a stagnant, dead fish, disease pond. Yeah, there might be a year or two of bummersome situations, maybe some dust, but the benefits drastically outweigh the bad. I wish I was on the West Coast, so I could watch the transformation. The Elwah in Washington was such a huge, rapid success.

Damn

The naysayers aren't losing lakefront property, they're losing algae petri dish front property.

"Mountain in the Clouds" an early eighties hardcover by a Seattle/P.I. reporter tellls the story of how more fish VALUE was destroyed in the dam building between 1890 and 1910 than was CREATED by Hydro. But fish are free; Hydro is an income stream. pun intended.

Lake front property to river front property for salmon fishermen. Sounds good 👍

Great story. Any idea why The link to this video does not work when sharing and social media?

I'm not expert and I understand there are losers here but as an outsider with no personal involvement I think we really need to error on the side of natural state of the earth before it's too late. If we get a flood plain back perhaps it will restore rich soil? I grew up on a river that flooded regularly. Our garden and fruit trees were amazing. We never had to fertilize. The soil was incredible. I'm curious about land rights though. If your house property went to a lake edge does it now extend to the river? I think that would be a great win for the homeowners.

jumping for joy, return of salmon /steelhead is going to be magnifacent

Magic will be restored😀😀😀😀😀

In the black and white picture with the man in the Dugout I didn’t see a net.

I hope they do this here in sacramento ca. We have folsom dam blocking 2/3 of the spawning ground. Salmon are tiny now and not many come back. We used to have 60+lb fish all the time, now when people catch a 25-30lb fish it’s all over the internet.

Now they need to dredge the sediment to fully restore for the wildlife.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍🙏🌟💜

Those fish are gonna be disappointed when they get to Klamath lake 🤢

thank you for including information about the power and effect on that. the increase in fish population is well worth the loss of energy.

There’s going to be the biggest market of fish being asked of the yuroks this next year..!

A decade isn't that long

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Think outside the box the Improved fishery may run the property value up. Good luck to all .I love Salmon .I can't afford to go there and fish let alone ever retire but others can change is difficult. Enjoy and be greatful for what we have. I'm just glad to have a roof over my head and food to eat.

Klamath means greetings. Frankenmuth = candid mouth. I'm just adding your vowels back from our keys.

Make sure there's beavers

Power can be had from other methods.

The Klamath River will never be the same. It's a sewer Now. Everything is dead in it. There won't be Any Fishing in it for decades.😢

They want to remove dams on the snake too

That net does not look like traditional material.

We can revegitate the dry dusty lake befs.

Hopefully the Klamath Nation will ALSO allow salmon to go up to the Hoopa Plateua and replenish the runs that THAT native nation got screwed out of......by the Klamath running nets all the way across the streams.

It's good to see areas naturalized again! I just hope this doesn't affect downstream communities and infrastructure when the flood season comes again. They may need to make some major adjustments they weren't prepared for. Also not sure that the EPA infographic and the gentleman discussing "fish passage" are on the same page here. He says fish swim upstream, but the Ohio EPA is illustrating fish being blocked from going downstream. Off topic, but if Ohio is famous for it's historic lock and canal systems couldn't someone engineer a mini-canal or slide just for the fish to use? Or even do that in this situation. I have seen fish ladders in use before, and it would be much more economically feasible than completely removing a bunch of dams. You can just open up full flows first before removal. Use the money instead to build more reservoirs to serve southern California where more water is desperately needed.

The tribes were conquered. Who cares what they think? As a defeated group, they get no say!

im not taking sides here since there is only one winner but i would just like to know at what point did this lady catch 300 fish a day? i call bs unless she is 110 yrs old lol

In the meantime, we say we want less CO2 into the air.

It's great that we can finely admit our mistakes, and do our best to fix them. Goodbye dams, hello healthy salmon runs.

The Native Americans have been in the area for seven thousand years. White people have lived around the dams for at most a hundred years. Who has the most right to the water? No brainer for me, maybe not for those who care only about themselves and their immediate wants. I can't help but think somehow the Native Americans will be shorted as the US government has done for centuries since white people came to North America. After all, the dams are coming out only because the owners don't want to spend money on upgrades for fish to pass, not because Native Americans are recognized as having any rights to the water free flowing or to the fish. White people will quickly figure out a way to get money from the fish, most likely by shoving Native Americans aside.

Nature. Gods healer 🌀🦬🦬🦬🦬🇺🇸

It’s about money, nothing less.

Amazing how out of touch the announcer is at the end talking about it must be nuts to remove dams in a drought region. Maybe there's too many people in those areas. Maybe you can move to an area where there is enough water.

Please do a investigation and report of both sides in one year. Ty.

Removing the dams is for the benefit of the river which in a way benefits the public that is allowed to use it. How many homes can be affected by this ? 100+-? Why can’t our tax dollars compensate those owners say 50-100k for the reduced value of their home and land? That would be a one time payment of say 10 million. We seem to be able to spend billions for illegals, foreign wars, and foreign aid to countries that don’t even like us. How hard is this. Everything has a price with benefits and cost. We should make sure our citizens are the first to be cared for.

This is great and all, but one has to wonder what precident this dam removal will set to eventually have ALL dams removed all over our entire nation...... 🤔

Remove dams ! Realese the rivers ! Geave back land to teh neative AMERICANS JANKEEE

It's not like the noble Indian is going to return. But well see. I hope that we all get to fish the river, especially when the noble Indians get to. But are they going to get to use nets.

And now, we will have flooding on heavy raining years. People don't remember that any more. Big floods!

What wrong with climbing to the top of a hill to pray ? Or just pray wherever you are ?

By only removing 4 of the 6 dams I don't see how the water quality will be improved much.

Back to 100 and 500 year floods, I guess?

The Klamath River Hydroelectric Project generates, annually, enough low-cost, reliable power for 70,000 households. The dams provide good-paying, technical jobs and are the largest single private taxpayer in the county of Siskiyou. So we aren't going green then?

I wonder how this might affect flooding not having as much control over water say there is heavy snow melt off. In the dry years if we remove the dams will it go dry? Also will this cause the power rates to go up? News reporting that seems one sided to me. Time will tell my guess is the fish population doesn't come back they blame it on particulate matter. Lose of jobs power increases maybe add a few more taxes to add solar panels. Then localized flooding at some point and its blamed on climate change.

Maybe catching 300 fish a day in the river where they need protection is the problem?

One sided reporting on the dam removal. Nothing of substance on the other side of the issue.

So we're eliminating green energy sources

So when 100 years of slit is released how is that going to benefit the fish? Really dam removal of this magnitude is nothing more than an experiment. Watch the tribes complain when this doesn't turn out like they intended.

If the dams went in 100 years ago and she is seeing a 300 to 3 reduction in fish in her lifetime (WAY less than 100 years), then there must be other explanations than just the dam. The reduction in fish would have been immediate from the time the dam was built - the fish couldn't get past them then nor now. Maybe over fishing had an impact? Should have put some of those 300 fish back, maybe? So we are trading a green source of power for an experiment that may not improve the salmon fishery that much. Data on improvements of fish movement and proliferation by dam removal is not conclusive as near as I can tell. And very biased reporting, BTW. The only people shown opposing the dam removal are homeowners on the lake that will be destroyed. They are given the "poor baby" short shrift. But there are plenty of other people and groups opposed to it. Do a little more research and report in a more balanced way. I'm glad I don't have to listen to your reporting on a regular basis. Way too one-sided.

I thought Salmon were only smart enough to return to their place of birth to spawn when and if possible. I don't really see how whacking all the dams is going to somehow show them the way to the promised land of their great, great, great, great ancestors. I'm not sure if I got enough greats? lol....Maybe the tribe will blow peace pipe smoke in the water to enlighten them?

So do the noble Indians get to use net or do they have to use hook and line with rod and reel. And can you imagine how many illegal and newly illegal Chinese immigrants will be there over fishing the area. Believe me they do it, and they don't care if they leave anything left, they will try to take it all. It may not be all of them but there is enough of them that will.

This will have no effect on fish runs until they are managed properly. Between the commercials, Indian nets, and the many hundreds of sportmens the fish don't stand a chance. All you green tree huggers think that taking down the dams will solve the problem. Not true!!!!!!! The runs from the past did not have the pressure on them as they do now. Even the Chinese have found our fish in international waters. Don't get me wrong, taking down the dams can't hurt but the fish runs will never be what they once were with everyone fishing for them.