The same guy who was in charge of revegetation on the Elwha is in charge of the revegetation on the Klamath project.

The river's not going away, only the dams that were destroying the river. The same amount of water is going down the Klamath as there was when there were dams there. We can still use the river water without a dam. They have these things called pumps now. As far as the electricity, it was replaced by the same electricity, just generated in a cleaner form. Do you still drive a model T? Of course not! Things change, the world is modernizing. Try to catch up !😮

These dams produce no irrigation water or drinking water. The water in the lakes turned foul every summer. The small amount of juice generated from these dams was easily replaced. They produced about as much power as a six acre solar farm.

Plenty of water and power in the Northwest. We sell most of our power to other states we have so much.

Heard of solar, wind, geothermal, biomass? Hydro power only produces a very small amount of electricity at an enormous environmental cost. Letting the River flow free IS only a small step, we have to incresase efficiency, use more renewables, and generally change a developement model that results deadly in the long run

Do some reading. You know little about this project. We can tell from your comments. The water in the lakes turned foul. The dams were old and inefficient. The dam did nothing for flood control. During high water the gates were wide open to protect the dams from being topped over. The topography is canyon like in most areas. Not prone to flooding.

John is right all these dams did was produce electricity. No flood or water storage for drinking or irrigation.

The best solution to flood control is not building dams, it's preventing humans from building permanent structures in areas known to be subject to flooding. Humans have lived with the consequences of natural and normal flooding for hundreds of thousands of years and rather than trying to control or stop the flooding, recognized the events for what they were: a natural phenomena that replenished the soils of the flooded areas. We have the resources, historical data, and technology to know both existing flood ways and flood plains and for the most part, across the USA, most governmental agencies very strictly control both where, what, and how anything can be built within areas know to flood. I am an architect and have designed dozens of buildings governed by design parameters dictated by flood zones and it's really not that hard to do. It's expensive at times, yeah, but the environmental costs of erecting dams and destroying perhaps tens of thousands of acres of existing natural environment is, over the long haul, many times more costly. Dams large and small are being dismantled all over the world for this very reason.

Close, but more like "after Pacificorp almost destroyed it."

If not for the EPA everything would be worse. Everything!

I feel it too. I was hired by the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, a small town Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper. I began work on October 29, 1963 in the circulation department and left in November, 1979 to start my own small printing shop. There was something special hearing the hiss of the web running over the rollers and the whole machine seemed alive but it was only a machine.

Man but if the trip turned on you it would be a total hellscape

@@blueridgebackwoods4231 IM-Possible to escape! I, as a veteran 1980's tripper, would not go anywhere NEAR three states of that... Stufff.

Shore Acres State Park near Charleston, Oregon.

@@Pietsch28 Ive had that spot booked for a while now. Cant wait to check it out.

Bun Bun Do you go to Creswell middle?