Friday, August 28, 2015 at 12:00AM There’s a growing movement to reevaluate dams, to figure out whether their purpose – for making electricity, controlling floods, recreation, or storing irrigation and drinking water – outweigh the challenges they pose for fish.
dam removal, damnation in Dams, Environment Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 12:05AM 
Photo: Andy Ritchie/National Park Service
When people urge the removal of dams they say are strangling rivers in the West, it’s usually fish they’re worried about. Studies of dam-removal projects show that migratory species like salmon respond quickly to improved conditions once a dam is removed.
But the removal of a dam on the Elwha River in northern Washington State — the largest such project in the United States — is demonstrating that there can be another beneficiary: the beach.
LINK (via:The NY Times)
Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 12:06AM 
PBS's NOVA Next takes a look at the "Undamming of America."
Gordon Grant didn’t really get excited about the dam he blew up until the night a few weeks later when the rain came. It was October of 2007, and the concrete carnage of the former Marmot Dam had been cleared. A haphazard mound of earth was the only thing holding back the rising waters of the Sandy River. But not for long. Soon the river punched through, devouring the earthen blockade within hours. Later, salmon would swim upstream for the first time in 100 years.
dam removal, damnation in Dams Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 12:01AM Southern Oregon is beginning to get a reputation as a place where efforts to improve fish passage are succeeding. And two significant dams in the Rogue watershed are coming down this summer.
LINK (via:OPB)
dam removal, damnation in Dams Monday, August 3, 2015 at 12:00AM 
A 61-foot dam that helped kill off the Eklutna River salmon run will finally be removed.
The Conservation Fund -- in partnership with the Native Village of Eklutna and Eklutna Inc. -- has formally announced its intent to remove the Eklutna River dam now owned by Eklutna Inc.
LINK (via: Alaska Dispatch News)
damnation, deadbeat dams in Dams Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 12:07AM 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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