well i hate to say it....but i am going to anyways...I TOLD YA SO !!....fish spawning up above dams now....chinook rocking it now....only will get better and better....look at water quality...nice....spawn baby spawn....!!!
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TOLD YA SO AGAIN....fish are past all 4 dams now...fish up creeks spawning and more fish in river above dams ready to enter creeks....SPAWN BABY SPAWN....this is only the beginning of something beautiful !
like i said...ITS HAPPENING...History in the making...things are getting better.
OVER 100 SALMON SPAWNING NOW....with some steelhead....
told ya....10 days after dams finished 290 salmon and steelhead were counted in 24 hour period passing by sonar counter....now its been a few weeks and 100's of fish are spawning above the dams......this is going to return to best fisheries in very short time...spawn baby spawn !!
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he Klamath River was once the third-largest salmon river in the United States, but over the last century, salmon populations have declined by more than 90%. The construction of dams severely impacted salmon stocks, extirpating them from half of the river’s basin. The reservoirs led to toxic algae blooms in summer and fall, with some years reporting levels over 4,000 times the World Health Organization’s safety limits. Warmer water released during salmon migration also contributed to disease outbreaks that caused significant mortality among adult salmon and steelhead. Furthermore, the dams trapped sediment, enabling the spread of Ceratonova shasta disease, which decimated juvenile salmon each spring.
he Klamath River was once the third-largest salmon river in the United States, but over the last century, salmon populations have declined by more than 90%. The construction of dams severely impacted salmon stocks, extirpating them from half of the river’s basin. The reservoirs led to toxic algae blooms in summer and fall, with some years reporting levels over 4,000 times the World Health Organization’s safety limits. Warmer water released during salmon migration also contributed to disease outbreaks that caused significant mortality among adult salmon and steelhead. Furthermore, the dams trapped sediment, enabling the spread of Ceratonova shasta disease, which decimated juvenile salmon each spring.
For over a century, these dams have been the main barrier to the recovery of wild salmon and steelhead, with climate change worsening the effects.
The Indigenous-led campaign to un-dam the Klamath took about 25 years, and the deconstruction of all four dams was completed in roughly 18 months. Remarkably, just three days after the removal was finalized, salmon began swimming past the former dam sites. Within ten days, sonar detected 290 salmon and steelhead moving upstream in a single day, and soon after, they were observed spawning in Oregon for the first time in a century.
In the weeks that followed, hundreds of chinook were documented spawning in all the tributaries and mainstem river along the 50-mile hydro reach. As reports of salmon continuing to enter the ocean emerge, it’s likely that these numbers will grow into the thousands. These returning salmon are remarkably healthy, vibrant, and disease-free—clear indicators of improved river conditions following the removal of the dams and a testament to the resilience of nature. Our feature documentary Undamming Klamath will debut in 2026.
Pronghorn herds dying by the dozen on eastern Colorado roads after snowstorm
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Pronghorn are being hit by drivers in droves as they seek refuge from snow-covered fields, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials. The southeast state wildlife office said more than 100 of the animals had been killed on roads this week and the northeast office said 52 had been killed Tuesday morning alone.
The wildlife office for northeastern Colorado said all 52 pronghorn were killed at once. Mass killings can happen when a herd is hit while bunched together on the road after snow, officials said.
Drivers need to slow down and watch for pronghorn standing or sleeping in the road, especially at night, state wildlife officials said.
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Pronghorn are being hit by drivers in droves as they seek refuge from snow-covered fields, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials. The southeast state wildlife office said more than 100 of the animals had been killed on roads this week and the northeast office said 52 had been killed Tuesday morning alone.
The wildlife office for northeastern Colorado said all 52 pronghorn were killed at once. Mass killings can happen when a herd is hit while bunched together on the road after snow, officials said.
Drivers need to slow down and watch for pronghorn standing or sleeping in the road, especially at night, state wildlife officials said.
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I can imagine. That road from Kansas to Denver is flatter than flat ranchland. Takes us 8 hrs to get there from where I am. I saw it closed, and am not surprised. Twice over the years we drove to Denver, leaving Kansas with mild weather, and hitting the border, I had to buy a jacket at the truckstop. Not much out there.
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It does happen when there is blowing snow. There were nine vehicles involved in an accident in North Dakota many years ago with a group of pronghorn crossing a busy highway in the Bakken Basin while there was blowing snow, impacting visibility for both pronghorn and drivers. I don't know how many pronghorn were involved.
There was a record set in Colorado as far as snow fall from that storm last week. https://www.cpr.org/2024/11/11/colorado-snowfall-set-records-around-the-state-this-weekend/
"Though the season has just begun, Denver received approximately 20 inches of snow last week. And if another solid storm comes through before December, it could make history.
“So if the month ended right now — which obviously it isn't — but right now the 20 inches we have on the month, that would actually be the 10th snowiest November in Denver's history,” said Zach Hiris, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “To get to the top two or three, we’ve got to get about eight or nine more inches of snow.”
Southeast Denver received an unusually large amount of snow compared to other areas along the Front Range. And according to Hiris, this was simply due to “the way the winds worked out.”
Further south, snowfall records for the date were broken in both Pueblo and Colorado Springs.
On Friday, Nov. 8, both cities received record breaking amounts of snowfall. Pueblo received almost 5 inches of snow — breaking the previous daily record set in 1890. Similarly in Colorado Springs, the southern Colorado city received 8 inches of snow breaking the previous record of 2.6 inches set in 1975.
To the west, the mountains are also off to a snowy start, giving the state’s early snowpack a boost. Front Range cities and agriculture all depend on a deep snowpack.
“Across the state, we're doing pretty darn good for the most part. We're running above average to well above average to start,” Hiris said of the snowpack in the various mountain basins — particularly those south of I-70. “But obviously it's a long ways to go until we get to the peak of the snowpack season.”
At the height of the storm, more than 75,300 people lost power across the state, most of them in the Denver metro area. As of noon Monday, more than 1,000 homes in metro Denver are without power, according to Xcel’s power outage map, but according to Michelle Aguayo, a spokesperson for the utility, none of these outages are related to the storm.
“Everybody whose power was impacted by the storm has been restored,” Aguayo told CPR News."
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I stayed inside during the storm and honestly couldn't tell that it was that bad. I have flagstone walks and they tend to heat up and melt snow faster than cement walkways. A neighbor did shovel for me, as often happens in our area, snow angels take care of other's walkways. I've participated in that myself.
Once we were driving in North Dakota. Daughter was behind the wheel and we had driven from Colorado that day. It was dark and there was blowing snow, making it difficult to see, but we were close to our destination. A deer hit the car. The damage was not bad, but it could have been. I just needed to replace the front passenger side panel on the car. It was bent and it was tricky to get the door open until that panel was replaced.
I don't know about other places, but deer can also be a big problem for drivers. Truck drivers and others know that night time driving is worse. I had a deer hit a rental car one time driving from Crater Lake in Oregon. It's the only accident that I have had with an animal when I was driving.
UPDATE....wow tomorrow they start planting 21k white oak acorns...they already planted 28k acorns...i mentioned this before along river use to oaks used by natives for food....down stream they still do...this is returning to way it was pre dam time. more info whats been done and amounts and what still to come.
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It is super cool that it makes them so happy to have it restored.
told ya.....great success with much more to come...going to be working on side stream habitat this year...but look at how many fish went up stream in this communication...recall my posts about oak was there too....6,000 fish went up stream......6,000 !!!
Indian Country Today named Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey one of 11 Indigenous Change Makers in 2024 for his work on Klamath dam removal and the restoration of the river.
Last year, a decades-long, tribally lead effort culminated in the removal of four fish-killing dams from the Klamath River. The decommissioning project is considered the largest salmon restoration effort in history. The Yurok Fisheries Department is involved in multiple aspects of the dam removal and river restoration project. The department’s revegetation crew is planting tons of native plant seeds and tens of thousands of acorns and saplings along the 38 miles of river once occupied by the dams. Next year, the Fisheries Department and several partners will begin restoring multiple salmon-spawning streams above the former reservoir footprints.
A positive sign for the future, earlier this month, it was announced that more than 6,000 salmon made it into the newly undammed river segment shortly after the dam removal project wrapped up last fall.
The Yurok Tribe congratulates Barry for the much-deserved acknowledgement from @indiancountrytoday. In addition to tribal fisheries experts, the Indian County Today’s Indigenous Changemakers includes actors, politicians, athletes and boarding school healing advocates.
Indian Country Today named Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey one of 11 Indigenous Change Makers in 2024 for his work on Klamath dam removal and the restoration of the river.
Last year, a decades-long, tribally lead effort culminated in the removal of four fish-killing dams from the Klamath River. The decommissioning project is considered the largest salmon restoration effort in history. The Yurok Fisheries Department is involved in multiple aspects of the dam removal and river restoration project. The department’s revegetation crew is planting tons of native plant seeds and tens of thousands of acorns and saplings along the 38 miles of river once occupied by the dams. Next year, the Fisheries Department and several partners will begin restoring multiple salmon-spawning streams above the former reservoir footprints.
A positive sign for the future, earlier this month, it was announced that more than 6,000 salmon made it into the newly undammed river segment shortly after the dam removal project wrapped up last fall.
The Yurok Tribe congratulates Barry for the much-deserved acknowledgement from @indiancountrytoday. In addition to tribal fisheries experts, the Indian County Today’s Indigenous Changemakers includes actors, politicians, athletes and boarding school healing advocates.
It happened faster than I thought it would. We need more fish here, salmon runs are WAY down, the hatchery isn't giving away free fish for smoking anymore. Salmon is an enormous aspect of Pacific Northwest culture, not just for the natives, and this year, unless you buy some gross farmed fish at a store salmon has been pretty much unobtanium. In years past on this part of the river the banks would be littered with salmon carcasses. I haven't seen any this year. Trinity river run looked okay though, I did take the kids to see them spawning below their hatchery last fall.
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I'm glad to see the dams gone, hopefully this is the start of many more dam removals in the northwest. This is great for the salmon and steelhead runs along the Klamath but there are many more runs that have become extinct in other rivers due to dams. Not to mention that sturgeon have been virtually wiped out because of dams too. At one time salmon used to make it up the Columbia to the Snake River all the way to Wyoming. Same with the Kootenai river to Montana.
