Eel River dam removal finished
California State Parks recently announced the completion of the removal of the Benbow Dam, which is the second largest concrete structure to be removed in …
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Bill speeding up hydropower dam licensing clears U.S. House
An effort by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers to speed up what she calls an unnecessary delay to approve the construction and re-licensing of hydroelectric dams …
Feds won’t oppose Klamath River dam removal
A bit of good news coming out of the Department of the Interior. A top Interior Department official said in a recent interview with an …
Dams seen driving ‘mass extinction’ of salmon.
For millennia, Native Americans subsisted on a spring run of chinook salmon returning to the Klamath River in Northern California. That changed when the last …
Study: Rivers Recover Faster Than Expected After Dam Removal
The increase in dam removals—particularly large dams—and associated dam-removal studies over the last few decades motivated a working group at the USGS John Wesley Powell …
THE MEMORY OF FISH – Trailer
THE MEMORY OF FISH is a documentary portrait of one man, the wild salmon he loves, and his fight to free a river. The documentary …
To Restore Healthy Rivers, Conservationists Find Success Removing Small Dams
Unlike large hydropower dams, where there’s often serious political and emotional resistance to removal, conservationists are finding many landowners of small dams are happy to …
Biologists Watch Steelhead Return After Historic Dam Removal
The San Clemente Dam was 95 percent full of sediment and at risk for failure during an earthquake, which would have sent more than a million tons of sediment …
One of the Largest Dam Removals in California History Inches Forward
Decorated with a pair of scissors and prominently featured at the end of the film DamNation, the Matilija Dam in Ojai no longer functions as …
Group removes some of last visible remnants of Marmot Dam
Ten years after the Marmot Dam was removed, partially thanks to a big explosion, conservationists returned to that location along the Sandy River Saturday to …