Wild Fish Don’t Ride in Trucks

In this Sacramento Bee op-ed, Yvon Chouinard and Matt Stoecker explain why a proposed trap and haul program is the wrong way to save salmon on California's Yuba River.

LINK (via: The Cleanest Line)

Local conservationists also oppose the plan to truck salmon. 

It’s time we #FreeTheSnake

Snake River Salmon have been trucked, put on barges, diverted up fish ladders—all in the hope that enough would get by four dams to reach their historic habitat in numbers that would assure their future. It’s not working: It’s time to breach the dams and reconnect wild salmon to this important watershed.

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DamNation – Help stop Ishiki Dam in Japan

Photo: Takayuki Tsujii

There are currently over 80 dams being planned right now in Japan. Among those, the Ishiki Dam being planned for construction in Nagasaki prefecture’s Kawatana-cho poses serious environmental, economic and human rights concerns.

LINK (via: The Cleanest Line)

You can TAKE ACTION HERE.

Changing mouth of Elwha River documented in aerial photos

Aerial photographs of the Elwha — fed by sediment no longer impeded by hydroelectric dams — show it simultaneously elongating its course seaward, widening what one could call a delta, and “smearing” sediment along the shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in what's starting to look like a spit.

LINK (via: Peninsula Daily)

Steelhead show they want up the Crooked River

The big effort to restore ocean-going fish runs in Central Oregon’s major rivers has put the focus on a small diversion dam a half-mile up the Crooked River from Lake Billy Chinook.

A contingent of fish and water groups — the Northwest Steelheaders, Central Oregon Flyfishers, the Native Fish Society, WaterWatch, the Crooked River Watershed Council, the Wild Salmon Center and the Wild Steelhead Coalition — have joined together to support a website explaining the situation and asking for donations to help change it.

LINK (via: The Bulletin)

After 15 Years, Land Trust Still Pushing For Removal Of East Burke Dam

As spring returns, controversy swirls over a dam in East Burke Vermont. The land trust that owns the dam wants to tear it down. But other residents see the dam as an historic buttress to the local economy.

LINK (via: Vermont Public Radio)