9:17 - Lady thinks an artificial lake that becomes a toxic, sludge filled, sewer during drought is a "paradise of water".

The guy that compared the removal of these dams to ripping out a park and replacing it with a freeway is comparing apples to nuclear waste. The river is being RESTORED to its natural form, it's not a toxic freeway. Sorry you gotta hike now to the river, but, it will do you good. I say this as a person who is 55 years old and who hikes into the American river regularly.

Even with the dams gone, fish and those helping them have struggles ahead. I hope you all have clear minds and keep heart. I hope to come and see the river once again. Thanx!

The people complaining about the loss of the view and change in life when the dams are gone...the natives complained about the same thing when the dams were built and authorities didn't care.

"Collateral damage"... shoes on the other foot now, huh? hows it fit?

The removal of the dams on the Klamath river in California and Oregon? Stand proudly upon the shoulders of the removal of the dams, and the ongoing restoration of the Elwha river in NW Washington. The Elwha has already seen huge gains in the salmon populations.... and I pray the Klamath does as well......

The Klamath is 257 miles long, and most of those miles suffer from the dams. While I understand those 100 people will have a difficult time, the Klamath is an epic basin that has cascading effects on millions of acres. I am looking forward to the long journey of healing the Klamath will triump.

"you can't have people respect you if they don't know about you." Quote of the day.

What an utterly ridiculous analogy, building a freeway where there once was a beautiful park. How about restoring a beautiful river where there once was a man-made reservoir.

"Break the dam! Release the river!" -- Treebeard

Water is life.

Watching from Australia- congratulations on the restoration

I cannot wait to visit the river when it recovers

Well you had your time with the Dam, now you get a view of a River. Enjoy.

so so SOOOOO happy to see these damns being removed. supporting these types of changes in the 80s and 90s lead to a lot of hate and vitriol spewed at me constantly. to see the communities finally 'turn the corner' on this issue is really satisfying.

I would like to take that tour in those special canoes down that river✅🙏😁

The loving words some of these folks have for a built environment, one that’s not at all real, is wild to think about. Dams have uses, but also lifespans, and we’ve built too many.

Much love to the Yurok tribe and all of their efforts!

When the salmon arrive I hope there's going to be laws for the taking of salmon. If your a Native No monofilament nets, modern boats or fishing gear they have to fish for them like they did 500 years ago like their Ancestors did. I've watched the Tribal people on the Klamath stretch nets bank to bank taking salmon then loading the catch up to sell them to anyone out of their trucks on the side of the road. Not exactly subsistence take to feed the tribe.

The lady calling he4self collateral damage is not living in reality. She benefited from the damage these dams inflicted and now is the victim when they are removed?

I guess i better drive up there and take a look around. I kinda want a river front property not a lake front property. Might be a prime spot to retire and catch some salmon, even if i have to dig a deeper well.

The Elwha is a great example of how successful and profitable dam removable can be to local communities.

I grew up right next to the klamath river dam. Im all for a healthier river and more fish.

I love how they're trying to play it off with environmental concerns when it's really about money.

Without removing the upper 2 dams I don't see how the water quality is going to change much. Klamath Lake is an over 40 mile long stagnate algae infested swamp that isn't even safe for people to swim. This project will open up some of the river though.

The people up along the Klamath reservoirs will have to change paths and become world-famous Steelhead lodges now?

The Klamath river is not a "freeway". Copco residents should embrace it and capitalize on it. It is not an end, it is a beginning.

I’m so happy for the Klamath River.

This is a great thing for the great Creator and I'm glad that they are taking the dams out much respect for the Indian indigenous people that live around their way to keep up the fight

PEOPLE ALONG THE RIVER NEED TO STOP USING FERTILIZERS IN THEIR LAWNS.

The are still two reservoirs/dams up river on the Klamath. Those can be used to regulate water levels during droughts and floods.

Pacific Corp is the least one paying for the removal> Its being paid for the CA State Water Bond passed back about 10 years ago. Yeah, and the Tribe gets a big chunk of it too.

I like how they have a house covered in solar panels 😂

Great. Now do it to the Pitt river

Patty, the tribe, fish, were collateral damage....

I grew up on this river. They fished it and polluted it for decades, and to a disgusting extent. I hope they’ve actually changed the culture and aren’t just money grabbing.

overly dramatic? it's not a freeway, it's a river ... it'll still be beautiful

Do Hetch Hetchy next please!!!

wonder if they will ever do this on the feather river. Spent some nice times near where it flows out. Really neat area

This isn’t unprecedented. The Elkhart dam removal and restoration in Washington shows the results of dam removal. The tribes want immediate results using farmed fish. But native fish moved in pretty quick creating stronger runs.

I cannot believe how selfish that woman sounds. Imagine....indigenous people in 1918 when they built the dam in the first place. Your "view" means zero. Nothing. Congratulations Yurok Tribe!

You weren’t getting electricity from those dams.

Great work learning from our mistakes and righting the wrong.

A lot of food for thought. I live near the Waikato River in NZ. There are eight dams along the river. Hydroelectricity is very important in NZ because we don''t allow nuclear energy. About 80 -85% of NZ's electricity comes from renewables and about 50% comes just from hydro. Some of the major rivers, for example, the Whanganui River is not damed at all. ( BTW the Whanganui was given a unique legal personality under NZ law), I can't imagine the Waikato river without the dams on it. Each dam has its own little community - near me there's Arapuni, Whakamaru, Atiamuri, and Mangakino. The dams are the big, old dumb sort with no allowance for fish, eels , etc... The Waikato river is most closely associated with Tainui iwi (tribe). They have kaitiakitanga (stewardship) over the river and own the river bed. At the moment, I don't think there is any real debate about the economic utility of the dams. We need them and the energy they produce. Hopefully other renewable, clean energy will reduce our dependency on hydro and we can restore the river system here too.

Remember when California had a power surplus? Yeah, me either….

Next up is Klamath lake where agriculture runoff kills dragonflies and in the summer there’s nothing that eats the midges, so you get Burger Pattie’s worth of dead bugs everywhere on your front door. Could be the best fishing lake in the state but instead it’s an algae bloom nursery.

This is awesomeness, restore Hetch Hetchy next!!

I am so glad to see this dam system demolished. The planet is abundant for everyone if it is treated with respect and wisdom.

I can understand the people living there upset about their property value, I say to them, were you at Standing Rock? If not, they don't have much to say. The good news is this isn't ruining their land, it's restoring it. Standing Rock ruined the land. It's about time Indigenous people get something back. Change is hard, it will be ok.

So happy for the tribe, river life, nature, and fish. Open them up, RIVERS. Work with nature

If this was such a great idea, explain why the state of California declared two federal fishery disaster declarations for the Klamath River immediately afterward?

BEAUTIFUL,CONGRADULATIONS

This river doesn’t serve as many people as it use to. The area was big into mining and logging. Also this River originates in a semi-desert. This River can run very low depending on how much rainfall per year. The low water level killed millions of Salmon fry because the water was too hot.

Don’t salmon die after spawning?

Those residents living next to the lake were drawn there by the lake and now the lake is returning back to what it once was a beautiful river, trade in your power boats for canoes.

The farmers, ranchers, and wildlife of the Klamath Basin loose again. 👍🙏😎🦅🇺🇸

Oh boy! This is going to be interesting to watch !

The cleaness and most efficient power you can get just sad.

Was there an option to keep a portion of the dam and lowering the water level of the manmade lake?

We can impound water by using green energy and pumping into a resevoir for kenetic storage of energy while also having the water for municipal uses. Today, we can have it all. Sure hope the problems of algae can be solved in the Klamath Falls area. Its a blight on a gorgeous part of Oregon.

This is a win for Native Americans. I fully support our Native people.

This is just my opinion, but I would be willing to bet that the flute lady would be standing hand in hand with the tribe members doing her best to sound like a native American playing her flute and praising the efforts being made to restore the land and the river, as long as HER property and her life or not being affected for the better good. Very hypocritical of someone who appears to me to be so enlightened in her own mind.

Shout-out Brook Thompson, so inspirational ‼️

great piece.

Stop saying Ku-Lamath!

The concept is good but the implementation without removing the toxic clay sludge has now created an ecological disaster. In addition the water tested is toxic and has been tested and is above EPA levels on many fronts. This is also compromising wells downstream. The clay sludge is cementing the salmon reds and habitat from the source to the ocean, all being documented. This is not speculation. Weekly updates are discussed on the Bob Simms outdoor show.

This is great news! Do the Glen Canyon dam next!

The fairest thing to do would be to give the people who had lakefront property 50 to 100 ft of riverfront property.

Wow, what an awesome project ❤

I realize the unhappiness of the people who brought homes by the lake but the real Americans have been deprived of a healthy river. Nature will bring it back to health for them.

I would like to take that tour on the Klamath. The Indian folk did not lose their faith in the Klamath healing. 4 of 6 dams should really make a difference in flow, depth and channel.

I loved the lakes and the incredible fishing and it will be sad to see them go. However, one thing is true and that is the algae blooms. They were really bad!

9:56 Replaced with Renewable resources, what is more renewable than hydro?

I hope the cooler water help cools down the oceans…😮 we need this on all along the coast.🤓….😊

Ya know, the Air Force has several types of jet-mounted dam removers. Just say'n ...

To clarify, restoration of the riverbanks started in January in order to get a jump on invasive weeds and will continue for some time.

Save the Salmon!!

Don't salmon die when they spawn?

I'm genuinely curious, please no hate I'm seeking knowledge. When the dams are removed, wont the lakes be drained... if so what about water resources for fighting wildfires? Were they not used for that before?

And not to mention of the dead fish, or the contaminated water in the wells, and the spawned eggs that came from the steelhead and salmon, that are now dead. We just lost entire year of production from those fish, along with the fish that are now dead in the river. Gotta love it feel sorry for the fisherman.

Brook, Mark, You two are my heros. Patty, it's not about you and your view. It's so much greater than your small box of thinking.

You know what else severly damges fish populations? Running multiple nets across the river banks, catching and killing anything that get caught in them. That's exactly what these indigenous tribes are doing. I saw it first hand while fishing with a guide on the mouth of the Klammath. We were limited to 2 salmon, while the local tribe would net hundreds of Kings everyday to sell them amd their roe.

doesn't that lady understand that true beauty is natural and not man made? its time we understand that most of our landscape is managed by humans and when possible we need to return it back to nature.

I so hope that the salmon and trout come back to all there splendid glory so we have leverage to tear down all dams on other rivers that have drastically lowered fish populations!

Its called progress when you take from them and a travesty when they take from you. 😢 All will have lost something. But time will heal wounds, eventually 😌 (as is beginning to happen now for some)

Ugh, the narrator needs to know how to say Klamath...like clam... not Kalamath.

Happy to see these dams removed and the river going back the way it was. I understand people along the unnatural waterway and reservoirs are unhappy, but the health of our declining environments and fish species are more important for the future. Think of it this way, you've destroyed one group of people's way of life that has been that way for thousands of years, for your own way of life stretching maybe 60 years.

The residents of Copco Lake are not unique in being “collateral damage.” People east of the Mississippi have had this happen to more than 50% of the population.

Smith river and Klamath river are the 2 most beautiful gifts from the creator... those who protect and serve are blessed!

did they know that salmon die when they are done spawning?

Disaster! People had no idea this would be the outcome. Since removal of Dam suspended sediment in the water has brought the dissolved oxygen level down to zero twice since the dams were removed. Now, you see muck and mud, dead fish floating to the banks, crawdads, and we see animals trying to crawl out of the water to escape.

So how do we replace the power lost by removing the dams?

I appreciate seeing a news report telling both sides of the story.

I’m so happy to hear this. Was reading about them wanting change a few years ago after visiting the Redwoods and hanging around town for a week.

With the removal of the Dams and restoration project , It would be a great time to ask the Elders to hand down to the next generation How to Build a boat .

Brook you and the tribe are awesome.. thank you so much

Indigenous people know more about Mother Nature than anyone else in the USA. I am an Apache blood brother. God bless the remaining tribes.

A lot of algae is caused by run off from septic and sewage as well as fertilizers. Dams can be built that allow normal fish migration. They didn't think much about that back then.

It amazes me how people who befit from the destruction of a people’s life and culture and now see what it feels like but is complaining. the tables have turned. I wish this wasn’t so typical in the us when it turns citizens against citizens while companies and politician just go with business as usual.

Funny hearing the narrator state they don’t have fish ladders while I can clearly see one in video. My favorite was listening to the woman speak about the fish like they where her ancestors, apparently ancestors they would sell let’s be honest that’s what really happens here. sure they live off some of it they live more off of what they sell whether it be on the side of the road , a local restaurants or taken down to the big city to sell for top dollar to high end restaurants. This is about money if they truly cared about the fish populations they wouldn’t line the river with gill nets every time the fish start running up the Klamath, I hear no talk about the impact that has on the numbers, one guy running a net can catch and keep more fish than a hundred guys that fish under Californias fish and game laws could ever do but yet it’s not discussed they just blame a dam. You can’t remove a large piece of infrastructure that communities are built around and not expect a huge economical impact this isn’t just the people living on the side of a lake, The people in the Klamath basin produce a lot of food for this country that will be greatly affected by the idea that removing the dams will bring all the fish back and never have water issues again. These will be the same people asking for tax payer dollars again and again to bring the fish back after the dam removal idea fails. I live near these communities I’ve fished the Klamath numerous times I’ve seen this first hand. This video only showed a tiny fraction of who and what this will negatively impact. Just enough to those who have no clue continue to believe the narrative these individuals are pushing.