It rains so much in this area that the Klamath will be back in no time.

FAKE

So if all these natives want their land back that means they are going to live just like they did in the 1600s no electricity no power no infrastructure right

wasn't 2002 a severe drought year and only salmon below the Trinty river confluence died. after all this, didn't fish still make it to the hatchery and also spawn below iron gate dam?

All water rights need to be cancelled and resubmitted. Nobody should have grandfathered water rights knowing how unfair and inaccurate the flows were measured originally. Water is a public resource and should never be privatized.

Hate to burst your bubble. Salmon never where able to go up river due to a lava dam just east of the Copco Dam. Get your facts straight and check the historical record.

There's a whole lot of hand wringing being done by people who relied on the reservoirs for tourism dollars and whatever their preferred form of lake recreation, along with income from sales of fishing gear and boat rentals. Also a lot of unfounded worry that the removal of the dams is somehow gping to cause lasting damage, rather than restoration. What those people's complaints and concerns lack are actual data and the ring of truth when it comes to the science. I have far more faith in the research of scientists than the opinions of the guy who's upset that he won't be able to sell as much fishing bait and rent house boats to people. It is simply not true that the damn removal will cause lasting detrimental effects to the river channel and ecosystem. That damage was done over a century ago. It is regrettable that some people who've built their livelihoods around the man made ecological damage that's been done to the river systems are going to have to adapt to change. However, it will be far easier for those people to adapt to the restoration of the ecosystem than for the ecosystem to sustain their lives without restoration.

I am sorry to say this but just wait till the salmon returns. Then they will be stolen.

The sediment issue is temporary. It was always going to be that way. Otherwise it would be thousands of trucks over many months taking out the build-up. Complaining about a thing that has loomed on the horizon for decades is just ...smh. Looking forward to a free river.

It’s sad because the way this video portrays the removal is not what has happened. The river is toxic, too dangerous to even get in. They’ve killed many native fish in the main leg of the Klamath and also killed 850,000 baby salmon releasing them into the blown out river…..so much incompetence or plain negligence with this project. Good luck floating that river any time soon. It’s a toxic dump. And by the way spawning levels below the dams have been way low for years, not sure they’re really thinking about the true cause of the low numbers. We’ll see what happens, but a lot of wild life just died for no reason.

I Understand what you're asking for. But the sediment behind these Dams have now washed in the Klamath River killing every living thing in it. Now will that help to restore the River. Millions of Fish are dead now? Unless we have a Major Flood. That Sediment will not clear out. This seems to be based on Hope's and Dreams. Sometimes Hope's and Dreams don't always come true. I Hope this is the River move. If not some Fish was Better than No Fish.

Thanks for all the work you do AW!

This sort of thing gives me hope, in some pretty rough times.

Very informative vid, thanks for posting. Some of the best advice I've ever heard is "Never underestimate the power of moving water."

This is awesome! Strong work Kevin and all the staff and volunteers at American Whitewater!

Fabulous. Thx ☮️🇺🇸

This video is out 10 month and only has 33 views? You guys need a better PR Person.

Great video! Thank you for the hard work!

AWA is self serving. They might protect a river or 2 but when stored water is wasted for adrenaline junkies rather than for hydropower and reducing fossil fuel use then there's a problem.

Definitely save the Skykomish Federally, to protect this gem!

Great video! My only feedback is that there is a non-locking carabiner in the pin kit. It is best practice to only use locking carabiners in a river environment. The carabiner is shown at 4:08. Yes, the carabiner may be secured in a bag, but if a boater puts it on their PFD a significant entrapment hazard is introduced.

Excellent, informative videos. Great to show a group or club.

This is awesome.

Any progress on this project? This weekend my boyfriend and I planned to paddle the lake to see the short channel but ended up running the long channel which was INCREDIBLE!!!

This is regressive. We should be building more dams to extract every watt of energy that we can.

where is part 2?

You don't remove the sediments. Let the river take care if itself by transporting it down river to prevent coastal erosion.

Make sure to lock your car doors. Great falls is nothing but crack heads, meth heads, pill heads, and corrupt cops. Chester county sheriff's office was raided by the FBI and US marshals because they were so corrupt. This whitewater section will be great for us yakers, but you'd be better off staying in rock hill and driving there in the morning. There is nothing in GF for food or supplies or to stay. That town died decades ago.

I bet they found hundreds of pounds of fishing lures below the dam when they took it out, I know i've lost my fare share there.

120 million to remove it. Breach it and let the water flow around it and leave the remains. S, how many bridges are in need of repair around the country. Misguided and 22 trillion in debt.

Sediment is NOT toxic. It is just soil & needs to be redistributed down stream. There have been numerous dam removals without hauling away the sediment & just letting nature run it's natural course.

Any update?

When your smooth talk game is grand master level .... Her : 0:01 Lets have kids ... lots of kids Me : MY PLACE NOW :L

Well, you managed to get the dam removed. Bring a paddle, we need some help removing the mud. Time for you to help with the cleanup: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGnWgX1phN1qZ7s

Here’s a look at what’s happening downstream of the Mill Pond destruction area. Bring your paddle and start digging; this mud’s for you! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGnWgX1phN1qZ7s

Visit my channel to see videos from a disappointed local of what it really looks like, not the staged beauty shots shown in this video.

When you're old but a hot girl finds out you're rich

The music was not needed!

Why do we need more dams, we already have major 12 Dams on the Columbia ,Snake and the Spokane river here in the Pacific Northwest and we do have a lot surplus of power and we selling it to Ca. ? More dams on these smaller river , no common sense ! More harmful in the long run !!

Check out the documentary, Damnation.

Thank Mother/Father Earth, whatever your pleasure, for the humans around that love life, all life. peace and love

Ok, uninformed here, What is Doha!,? Just asking my friend. Peace.

how about clean water you jerk

Based on the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court defines "navigable" as usable for small boats like kayaks/canoes and floating small logs for logging (historically); they also say "rivers that are navigable in fact are navigable in law." States cannot deny the public easement on rivers usable in these ways. We don't need state approval to float navigable rivers here in Colorado. The "Emmert" decision specifically deals with non-navigable streams not navigable ones.

God Save The Sultan!

exactly, the whole community is up in arms about it, they put up a "save the millpond" facebook page.

your "outside funding" is Seattle City Light, which had to undertake is as part of its relicensing. You have no clue what the local "realities and desires" are. Poll the locals, they will tell you to take a hike.

the "local economy" how is removing the dam going to help the local economy. I bet you dont even have a single AW member in all of northern pend orielle county. It has been there for 100 years, the fish have had to adapt by then. It is a history site, a site to camp, and a site to fish. removing the dam will make it a site to kayak....whoopie doo while all of the locals no longer will be able to use the site for what they have been using it for for decades.

Thanks for working on getting the mill pond dam removed and ruining an otherwise nice fishing and camping lake. There better be droves of AW members hitting this creek and bringing in money to that area or else dont be surprised if some of the locals end up throwing rocks at you