well i debated to say anything..but i am going to
@EastenerWesterner well the little bit of dam removal on kalamth river and the bit of silt/runoff.....well..its nothing compared to my region...imagine tearing down 1000's of dams at once....i bet if i dipped a 5 gallon bucket of water out of my local waterways right now and let it sit over night it would have 1 to 2 inches of mud in bottom of bucket by morning time.
The Elwha stayed muddy for a very long time....its going to be a long time recovery here i am afraid.....the kalamath that was muddy was 400 miles...hell we have 1000's of miles of rivers and creeks and lakes...yes multiple 1000's that has probably got fish and wildlife kill like never seen before...otters,muskrats and beaver are going to starve if they didnt drown or were killed off by debris.
My local lake has a debris field that as solid and bigger than debris in spirit lake when st.helens blew in 1980.
I am talking multiple states...GA,SC.,N.C.,VA.,TN.,WVA. and portions of KY.
i might stop fishing or at least not keep a fish at all because i believe going forward every fish left alive needs to breed come spring time.
This worse than any nuke going off could ever be.