I made a statement about taking out
elbow dam in my first months in office
well it costs a lot of trouble the
president took me aside tsipras what’s
all this talk about removing day outs
when I first moved to the state of
Washington in 1991 I was told got to get
involved at the Elwha dam removal
project it’s gonna happen any year now
so 20 years later it’s actually
happening the dams both of them were
illegal to start with because of
existing legislation which stated any
dam built had to have passage for
migrating salmon all the species of wild
fish that have ever lived in Elwha are
still there biologists know that adults
should examine still beating their head
against the bottom of the dam a century
later they’re still trying to get
upstream taking a dam out and opening up
a watershed reconnecting it with the
fish that were there for hundreds of
thousands of years it’s a very powerful
experience
where had they come from the answer
sounds like a fairy tale the far reaches
of the sea how had they arrived another
fairy tale by swimming against one of
the most powerful rivers on earth past
eight deadly dams all the way up from
the Pacific why had they made such an
insane journey another wonder these
colored stones and clear currents so
high and far from the sea once gave them
life so they’d become mountain climbers
literal mountain climbers though they
possess no legs
hooves feet they’d climbed the Rockies
to the pebbles of their birth by
swimming home at the certain cost of
their lives in order to create tiny
silver offspring a dam for salmon is
essentially a lack of access when their
basic life history requires the juvenile
fish to go out to the ocean and the
adult fish to come back to their
spawning stream so anything that blocks
a river like a dam does is end of story
elbow dam in my first months in office
well it costs a lot of trouble the
president took me aside tsipras what’s
all this talk about removing day outs
when I first moved to the state of
Washington in 1991 I was told got to get
involved at the Elwha dam removal
project it’s gonna happen any year now
so 20 years later it’s actually
happening the dams both of them were
illegal to start with because of
existing legislation which stated any
dam built had to have passage for
migrating salmon all the species of wild
fish that have ever lived in Elwha are
still there biologists know that adults
should examine still beating their head
against the bottom of the dam a century
later they’re still trying to get
upstream taking a dam out and opening up
a watershed reconnecting it with the
fish that were there for hundreds of
thousands of years it’s a very powerful
experience
where had they come from the answer
sounds like a fairy tale the far reaches
of the sea how had they arrived another
fairy tale by swimming against one of
the most powerful rivers on earth past
eight deadly dams all the way up from
the Pacific why had they made such an
insane journey another wonder these
colored stones and clear currents so
high and far from the sea once gave them
life so they’d become mountain climbers
literal mountain climbers though they
possess no legs
hooves feet they’d climbed the Rockies
to the pebbles of their birth by
swimming home at the certain cost of
their lives in order to create tiny
silver offspring a dam for salmon is
essentially a lack of access when their
basic life history requires the juvenile
fish to go out to the ocean and the
adult fish to come back to their
spawning stream so anything that blocks
a river like a dam does is end of story
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