More or less. No one piece of technology lasts forever. You can keep a river blocked, though, if you don't care how much damage you do and you have the technology for things like dredging, dam repair, and new dams.
I approve the growing movement of dam removal. We have very little time left if we want to save the anadromous salmonids.
Yeah! Like there's good reasons for things like reservoirs and power generating dames but we need to be more conscious of placement and the environment. A lot of dams are... better not being there.
There was a recent removal in my state and it's pretty exciting hearing about it. There's a lot of nature restoration left to do, but apparently the salmon are already returning, so that's great news.
>>Yeah! Like there's good reasons for things like reservoirs and power generating dames but we need to be more conscious of placement and the environment.<<
Reservoirs have their uses. There are some in my area. But we don't have anadramous fish around here.
>>There was a recent removal in my state and it's pretty exciting hearing about it.<<
Yay!
>>There's a lot of nature restoration left to do, but apparently the salmon are already returning, so that's great news.<<
You can get immediate response if a few salmon were still able to make the passage. If you have to start by dumping buckets of baby salmon in the headwaters, it takes several years because you have to wait for them to grow up and return.
>> If you have to start by dumping buckets of baby salmon in the headwaters, it takes several years because you have to wait for them to grow up and return.
Yeah. Thankfully in this case we're actually seeing numbers climb higher than expected, though I know some rivers aren't so lucky.
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Date: 2025-06-24 03:02 am (UTC)I approve the growing movement of dam removal. We have very little time left if we want to save the anadromous salmonids.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2025-06-24 03:40 am (UTC)A lot of dams are... better not being there.
There was a recent removal in my state and it's pretty exciting hearing about it.
There's a lot of nature restoration left to do, but apparently the salmon are already returning, so that's great news.
ETA: I dug up a recentish news article on how progress is going on restoring the area:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/klamath-river-dam-salmon-20350575.php
(By "dug up" I mostly just mean I set the time restriction to "last month" on my search and clocked the first promising summary.)
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2025-06-24 08:21 am (UTC)Reservoirs have their uses. There are some in my area. But we don't have anadramous fish around here.
>>There was a recent removal in my state and it's pretty exciting hearing about it.<<
Yay!
>>There's a lot of nature restoration left to do, but apparently the salmon are already returning, so that's great news.<<
You can get immediate response if a few salmon were still able to make the passage. If you have to start by dumping buckets of baby salmon in the headwaters, it takes several years because you have to wait for them to grow up and return.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2025-06-24 12:38 pm (UTC)Yeah. Thankfully in this case we're actually seeing numbers climb higher than expected, though I know some rivers aren't so lucky.