Crews starting clearing the century-old Stearns Dam from the Crooked River below Prineville in late October. The Bend Bulletin has more on the project, which should be pretty close to wrapping up by now.
Brandon Smith – KLCC
We have received numerous inquiries regarding “very, very large dark fish” from anglers fishing the headwaters of Mckenzie and Middle Fork Willamette watersheds, so here is a recent article from KLCC public radio about how those Spring Chinook got there:
Every summer thousands of hatchery-raised Chinook salmon gather at the base of Dexter Dam. The dam was built in the 1950s without much thought for migrating fish. That’s made a lot of work the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Every adult salmon that is upriver of Dexter Dam is there because someone threw it into the back of a truck. There is simply no physical way for them to swim past Dexter Dam. – See the complete story [HERE]
“Dismantling of the silt-filled San Clemente, to start next month, is being called California’s largest-ever dam removal.”
And the trend grows.
Complete article LINK from LA Times.
PHOTO BY MEEGAN M. REID
From The Kitsap Sun:
Washington state is violating tribal treaty rights by operating culverts that block the passage of salmon, and all such culverts must be upgraded for fish passage within 17 years, a federal judge has ruled.
The ruling, issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Ricardo Martinez of Seattle, is expected to accelerate the replacement of about 1,000 culverts managed by the Washington Department of Transportation and other state agencies.
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