Dams

  • Judge Redden rules against Obama’s salmon recovery plan

    Ralph Maughan

    Federal judge rejects federal salmon plan once again as he did with Obama’s predecessors- The judge said Obama’s plan sucks too, and he raises the specter of breaching the pork barrel dams on the lower Snake River (in Washington State). This judicial fight has gone on for a decade. Redden plays the game carefully, however.…

  • Obama, like Bush, seems to be stifling salmon science

    Ken Cole

    Manipulation of science remains the same or worse. In the first year and a half of the Obama Administration nothing has really changed with regard to environmental policy across several agencies. In fact, I think it has gotten worse for two reasons. One, things haven’t changed, and two, people just want to believe that Obama…

  • Federal biologists say that cutting hatchery production could help protect wild salmon

    Ken Cole

    It is an argument for removing dams as well. For many years biologists have known that hatchery fish effect the fitness of wild fish through competition and interbreeding. Hatchery fish don’t have the selective pressures that wild fish do so are less fit to survive in the wild. Because of this, when hatchery fish breed…

  • Do Dams Make A Difference? Similar Survival Rates For Pacific Salmon In Fraser And Columbia Rivers

    Ralph Maughan

    Big surprise. Dams don’t matter? Because they haven’t compared enough rivers, there are plenty of other hypothesis. I propose the Fraser River stocks do poorly because of all the disease breeding salmon farms the B.C. government has allowed between the mouth of the Fraser and the open ocean. Do Dams Make A Difference? Similar Survival…

  • Savage Rapids Dam gone. Oregon's Rogue River closer to freedom

    Ralph Maughan

    All sides win as 90-year-old salmon killer is demolished- When Gold Ray Dam (further upstream) is taken out next year, over 150 miles of the magnificent Rogue River of SW Oregon will have been returned to freedom. Story in the LA Times. Oregon dam’s demise lets the Rogue River run. By Kim Murphy.

  • Obama Repackages Bush Salmon Plan

    Ken Cole

    Calls Dam Breaching a “Last Resort” “The administration’s passing reference to dam breaching as a ‘contingency of last resort’ defers all necessary economic, infrastructure and other studies, making this ‘contingency’ an illusion,” said Samuel N. Penney, the chairman of the Nez Perce American Indian Tribe, which has traditionally fished the Columbia. New Federal Plan for…

  • Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West

    Ken Cole

    The long term effects of global warming, and desertification of the West examined. Exporting the water to the urban areas means exporting the rural areas’ soil to the East. Livestock grazing, water mining, dams, all serving to desertify the West which ends up blowing, in the form of dust, to the East causing snow to…

  • Unusual alliances give dams upgrades

    Ralph Maughan

    “Conservationists, farmers and governments work together so that everyone benefits. . .” Denver Post- Denver Post story. By Mark Jaffe I suspect there are folks on this blog who know the actual details who may have something to say about this “success.” Ralph Maughan

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