Back in the real world, saving one dam salmon at a time
King salmon
While Washington, D.C. was solving another self-created crisis, real American solutions were emerging in the other Washington. As William Yardley writes in the New York Times, massive dams that have prevented salmon from migrating upstream on the Elwha River are to be physically removed, allowing salmon to move naturally to their spawning grounds. Experts predict that “392,000 fish will fill 70 miles of habitat now blocked by the dams, matching the predam peak. Chinook here once grew as big as 100 pounds, and experts say they should reach that size again.” (more…)
