Posted on 03/04/2024 5:43:03 AM PST by CFW
California, which is in a state of perpetually self-inflicted drought, restricts all sorts of practical water solutions based they would hurt some living creature somewhere. (People, especially farmers, don’t count.) And along the way the state decided to demolish a dam to help some salmon.
The destruction was celebrated by environmentalists and rubber-stamped by the media.
Native American tribes, environmentalists and state officials have been big advocates for this dam removal. Governor Gavin Newsom announced “California’s Salmon Strategy for a Hotter, Drier Future” in hopes of restoring salmon populations in the state. The governor lists his six priorities: removing barriers and modernizing infrastructure for salmon migration, restoring habitat, protecting water flows, modernizing hatcheries, transforming technology and strengthening partnerships.
Tribal leaders, environmentalists, and state officials are the only people who count in California.
$500 million was spent to make California a worse place. For human beings. And for salmon too.
Hundreds of thousands of young salmon are believed to have died this week at the site of a historic dam removal project on the Klamath River, after an effort to restore salmon runs on the newly unconstrained river went awry, the Chronicle has learned.
The dead chinook salmon were among the first hatchery fish released on the Klamath since four hydroelectric dams were breached near the California-Oregon border, to allow the river to flow freely again and ultimately help fish flourish.
Kill the fish, help the fish, who can tell the difference.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
If you hear the words:
"I'm from the government, I'm here to help".
Then run! Run away!
The environmentalists don’t care about the fish, their only goal is stopping capitalism. The salmon/spotted owl is just a club to make that happen.
Just how did it kill the fish?
Main Article doesn’t say.....................
Yup. “The issue is never the issue.” Want salmon, go to the store and buy some. It isn’t exactly endangered species.
they don’t care about anything other than “their way” ...narcissim all the way
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.” - David Horowitz..........
Then there was the saved "baby seal" (I think)...they let the thing go...swim, baby, swim......and 3 minutes later...the tracker went "dead".
“Just how did it kill the fish?”
In this article there is a link to a SFChronicle article. A paragraph states:
“The salmon die-off, discovered downstream of the 173-foot Iron Gate Dam, is thought to be the result of trauma the small fish experienced when they went through a tunnel at the dam’s base, which had been opened to allow the river to pass and dam demolition to proceed. Water pressure in the outlet tunnel was presumably too great, causing the fish to die of what appears to be gas bubble disease, California officials told the Chronicle.’
The silt collected behind the dams was highly polluted and killed the fish when it was flushed downstream.
Metric tons of silt washed into the river after the dams removal and killed the Salamon fry, that’s how .
Lost interest in reading this after that absurd comment.
Maybe one of the locals can help us out.
The silt clogs up the fishes gills.
The mouth of the Mississippi River is a dead zone for miles out into the Gulf of Mexico..................
bttt
The silt from the release of the dam caused all the river below to be mud and killed the fish.
I’m convinced that part of the destruction of the dams was in retribution for the locals making the Feds stand down circa 2001.
The amount of silt released when the dams were breached.
Excellent!
Calipornia Voters should get what they vote for, in Spades.
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