Feds recommend removing dams from Klamath River

The federal government on Thursday recommended that all four aging hydroelectric dams be removed from the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern California to help struggling wild salmon runs, and nearly $1 billion should be spent on environmental restoration.

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A shame that Tom McClintock and his House Republican pals won't let the dam removal measures come to a vote.

UnDam the Klamath

DamNation Photo Gallery

Photo: Ben Knight

Take a scroll through the impressive photo gallery on Felt Soul Media's website for their upcoming film DamNation.

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DamNation Launches New Website

DamNation, a feature documentary produced by Patagonia and Stoecker Ecological in conjunction with Felt Soul Media, will be released in spring 2013.

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Read an interview with producers Yvon Chouinard and Matt Stoecker on the new site.

Chouinard hopes DamNation will open people’s eyes.

“I just hope it gets around to a lot of people and changes their way of thinking about dams,” he said. “I’d like to see a few more dams come down in my lifetime.”

(via:The Cleanest Line)

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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