Changing Planet: River Restoration

[CountAllVotes]

https://www.pbs.org/video/river-restoration-vntatm/

Video was on PBS last night.

It is about restoration of two rivers, the Klamath in California and another one in Paris, France.

Gives me some hope as I remember the days when the Klamath River ran wild and was filled with fish.

The salmon are returning NOW being the damns are being removed.

I had some of the Steehead from it for dinner last night in fact and was it ever good!

[NNadir]

1. The restoration of rivers should be a major goal of humanity. Personally, I'd love to see the Colorado River restored...

...but that would be a very hard sell.

It would be great if we could just have Glen Canyon back. It did a fan dance with us a few years back after extreme drought. It would take, of course, decades, to wash off the salts collected on the rocks if we did get it back.

One can dream...

[CountAllVotes]

2. The Klamath was a goner

Fish kills galore.

After the most recent dam was removed, they figured it would take years for the Chinook to return.

However, they began to show up a startling SIX DAYS LATER!

How is that for miraculous?

[NNadir]

3. In a very bad time, that is rare good news indeed. I didn't know that. Thanks. I'm a free river kind of guy.