Washington Opens Steelhead Fishing On Stretch Once Blocked By Condit Dam

After a yearlong closure, anglers will again be able to stalk southwest Washington’s lower White Salmon River in hope of hooking winter and summer steelhead making their spawning journey.

That fishing opportunity will include the roughly two miles of river from the former site of Condit Dam up to the head of its former reservoir – Northwestern Lake. That stretch of river had for nearly 100 years been submerged and inaccessible to salmon and steelhead.

LINK (via: The Columbia Basin Bulletin)

Condit-Dam Removal Episode 1

NarrativeLab spent a year documenting the removal of Condit Dam on Washington's White Salmon River after almost 100 years of operation for PacifiCorp. This episode introduces the project and shows how the river's salmon were put into position to utilize their new habitat.

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.

There She Blows

More Condit Dam explosive goodness.

Condit Dam Explosion

If you missed it live  skip to 1:55 to see the Condit Dam breached.

Watch the Condit Dam Breach Live - Scheduled for Noon Today

More explosive dam breaching fun!

To satisfy the public’s desire to watch the blast, PacifiCorp has set up a live webcast of the breach and will be announcing the URL on their website today at 11am.

White Salmon Restored will also be extensively covering the breach with the following.

• Two long-term time-lapse camera stations (equipped with Canon T2is) will be shooting one JPG frame every 3 seconds all day
• A second still camera (Canon 1D Mark 4) will be shooting 1 RAW frame per second for 45 minutes starting 5 minutes before the blast
• Two video cameras–a Sony FS100 and a Sony EX1–will each be shooting HD video for about 8 hours starting at 10am
• Steve and I will both be mobile with Canon 5Ds

LINK (Via: White Salmon Restored)