by Trout Unlimited | Mar 19, 2021
The years 2012 and 2015 are important years for the Elwha River, and for salmon and steelhead on the West Coast. Those years are when the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams, respectively, were fully deconstructed on Washington’s Elwha — and salmon and steelhead were able to pass them for the first time in a century. … Read more
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by California Trout | Mar 9, 2021
In the mountains of coastal Orange County, within Cleveland National Forest, a five-year project is underway to remove 81 small-sized dams across four streams. California Trout is leading an important role in this large, multi-partner and multi-level project, which...
by American Rivers | Feb 18, 2021
Despite the challenges of working through a pandemic, river restoration practitioners continued to pursue dam removal projects in 2020 to revitalize local economies and communities and reconnect 624 upstream river miles for fish, wildlife and river health. Sixty-nine...
by Hydropower Reform Coalition | Nov 16, 2020
The Fifteen Mile Falls project on the Connecticut River is one of the largest hydropower peaking projects in the Northeast which impacts aquatic systems through fluctuating demand flows. The Fifteen Mile Falls project is one of the first comprehensive re-licensing...
by Trout Unlimited | Oct 17, 2019
Editors note: This piece originally appeared in the opinion section of the Spokesman-Review. It is often difficult, if not impossible, to restore wild places to their former ecological and aesthetic glory once human development has altered them. But in some cases, the...
