Watersheds,rivers,fish and more

[elkhound]

Just doing a thread to post various things about restoring watersheds back to more free flowing for overall better water quality and fish habitat and still have some use from it for humans.

The Kalmath river and its dam removal is a project to help get better fish spawning and more fish.One thing with this project as well as many others is reality of aging infrastructure and cost benefit from fixing it.Kalmath dams were going to cost more to fix than it was to tear them down.Theres still going to be dams way up river but these 4 dams are going to open up so much habitat.This river was the 3rd largest salmon fish producer on west coast.

 

[elkhound]

Bear river update...whats sad to hear is the little dam that was used for getting towns water was not in use since mid 1980's..it just was there blocking fish habitat and more for over 34 years..all that time and yearly fish production just lost to time.Also much of the things are so old school and with a little creative design and more by changing a few things theres still going to be irrigation from this river just now its not blocked off so fish can migrate as need to .

one thing about old dams often they are very short dams under 6ft and not been in use especially on eastern half of u.s. for well over 100 years often.Theres 1000's of these little dams being removed now and its going to let fish run and spawn.Especially bait fish that larger fish feed on and in coastal areas bait fish that feeds ocean fish when going back and forth living out their life cycle..like shad and more.

Why is all this important..i am hunter and fisherman and more the better habitat gets better outdoor experiences and plus one day in future in a post industrial society/world these places will be repositories to turn what we have done to planet and give it a huge jump start in recovery and more.

 

[elkhound]

From video description

Salmon returning to spawn in their native rivers face many obstacles including nearly impossible-to-navigate waterfalls. In this short video, I show you an ingenious fish ladder that allows salmon to by-pass a narrow gorge and waterfall to reach the headwaters of a river where they'll spawn and regenerate their species. This fish ladder is on the Stamp River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Let's have a look...

 

[elkhound]

Building better fish ladders. This one was built in 2021 but theres was one already built and it tested out and works so well they will be building more.

 

[elkhound]

5-12-24 update...wow...one of them is coming down fast.

 

[backlash]

There is a big push to get salmon back to areas they used to spawn in Washington.
The Federal Government lost a huge case and they are now making great progress in getting salmon back to area they haven't been able to reach in decades or centuries.
My brother worked on this project.

 

[backlash]

There is a big push to get salmon back to areas they used to spawn in Washington.
The Federal Government lost a huge case and they are now making great progress in getting salmon back to area they haven't been able to reach in decades or centuries.
My brother worked on this project.