"We can now say that restoration of anadromous salmon in Olympic National Park is underway"

Adult chinook salmon were observed on the Elwha River in Olympic National Park, park officials and biologists reported, less than five months after removal of one of the two dams.

These are the first observed Elwha River salmon to naturally migrate upstream into the park, according to a statement released by the park.

LINK (via:The Penninsula Daily)

Steelhead above Condit Dam

Taken by Jeanette Burkhardt of Yakama Nation Fisheries on 7/16/12, a video still of a Steelhead ‘going for it’ at BZ Falls!

(via:Friends of the White Salmon River)

Biologists document fish migrating upstream of Condit Dam following dam's breaching.

The Dawn of Dam Removal

Bruce Babbitt, who served as governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and as Secretary of the Interior under Bill Clinton, recently wrote an environmental essay for Patagonia's latest catalog.

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Project would suck nearly all the water out of the Sacramento River

California coalition tells feds: Peripheral canal is an enormous mistake

Restore the Delta today released a powerfully-worded letter from 38 environmental, fishing, consumer, Native American and other groups alerting U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar of the enormous environmental and economic perils posed by the Obama administration’s support of the peripheral canal…

via: Red Green and Blue

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Restore the Delta today released a powerfully-worded letter from 38 environmental, fishing, consumer, Native American and other groups alerting U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar of the enormous environmental and economic perils posed by the Obama administration’s support of the peripheral canal or tunnel.

The groups said the administration is “poised to make an enormous mistake…and potentially drag the American people along with it,” by backing “construction of a world-record-size tunnel or pipes capable of diverting 15,000 cubic feet per second from the Sacramento River – nearly all of its average freshwater flow.”

Source: Red Green & Blue (http://s.tt/1etyu)

Great Works Dam removal to begin on Maine’s Penobscot River – Watch it Live

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One of the nation’s most significant river restoration projects will kick off on Maine’s Penobscot River on Monday. You can watch a live stream of the June 11 event here, scheduled to begin at 10am eastern time.

LINK (via: American Rivers)

Celebrating a big moment for the Penobscot River

The removal of the 1,000-foot-long Great Works Dam in Maine is the result of a collaborative effort by a coalition of conservation groups, hydropower producers and state and federal agencies to tear down two out-dated, inefficient dams on the Penobscot River and restore sea-run fish runs.

LINK (via:The Bangor Daily News)

Next year the Veazie Dam, which is larger and closer to the ocean, is scheduled to be removed. Once both dams are gone, Atlantic salmon and other sea-run fish will have access to 1,000 miles of ancestral river habitat.