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Death by a Thousand Dams
Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing northeastern streams and rivers—one tiny dam at a time.
By Ben Goldfarb
September 22, 2026Excerpt: "Since 1912, more than 2,300 dams have been purged from waterways in the United States, most in the last quarter-century. The dam-removal movement hit its apogee in 2024, when, by the accounting of the nonprofit American Rivers, 108 dam removals reconnected more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) of once-fragmented waterways. The year’s biggest and best publicized dam obliteration occurred on the Klamath River, where the dismantling of four aging hydroelectric dams opened more than 645 kilometers (400 miles) of spawning habitat in #California and #Oregon to #ChinookSalmon, who recolonized the watershed so rapidly that conservationists described the resurrection as 'magical.' Prior to the Klamath, the nation’s largest undamming took place on #WashingtonState ’s #ElwhaRiver, where two fish-blocking walls were obliterated on behalf of chinook, coho, steelhead, and other salmonids."
Read more:
https://biographic.com/death-by-a-thousand-dams/#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #NewEngland #NortheasternUS #RiverRestoration #FishRestoration #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRestoration #RestoringNature
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Death by a Thousand Dams
Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing northeastern streams and rivers—one tiny dam at a time.
By Ben Goldfarb
September 22, 2026Excerpt: "Since 1912, more than 2,300 dams have been purged from waterways in the United States, most in the last quarter-century. The dam-removal movement hit its apogee in 2024, when, by the accounting of the nonprofit American Rivers, 108 dam removals reconnected more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) of once-fragmented waterways. The year’s biggest and best publicized dam obliteration occurred on the Klamath River, where the dismantling of four aging hydroelectric dams opened more than 645 kilometers (400 miles) of spawning habitat in #California and #Oregon to #ChinookSalmon, who recolonized the watershed so rapidly that conservationists described the resurrection as 'magical.' Prior to the Klamath, the nation’s largest undamming took place on #WashingtonState ’s #ElwhaRiver, where two fish-blocking walls were obliterated on behalf of chinook, coho, steelhead, and other salmonids."
Read more:
https://biographic.com/death-by-a-thousand-dams/#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #NewEngland #NortheasternUS #RiverRestoration #FishRestoration #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRestoration #RestoringNature
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Death by a Thousand Dams
Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing northeastern streams and rivers—one tiny dam at a time.
By Ben Goldfarb
September 22, 2026Excerpt: "Since 1912, more than 2,300 dams have been purged from waterways in the United States, most in the last quarter-century. The dam-removal movement hit its apogee in 2024, when, by the accounting of the nonprofit American Rivers, 108 dam removals reconnected more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) of once-fragmented waterways. The year’s biggest and best publicized dam obliteration occurred on the Klamath River, where the dismantling of four aging hydroelectric dams opened more than 645 kilometers (400 miles) of spawning habitat in #California and #Oregon to #ChinookSalmon, who recolonized the watershed so rapidly that conservationists described the resurrection as 'magical.' Prior to the Klamath, the nation’s largest undamming took place on #WashingtonState ’s #ElwhaRiver, where two fish-blocking walls were obliterated on behalf of chinook, coho, steelhead, and other salmonids."
Read more:
https://biographic.com/death-by-a-thousand-dams/#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #NewEngland #NortheasternUS #RiverRestoration #FishRestoration #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRestoration #RestoringNature
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Death by a Thousand Dams
Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing northeastern streams and rivers—one tiny dam at a time.
By Ben Goldfarb
September 22, 2026Excerpt: "Since 1912, more than 2,300 dams have been purged from waterways in the United States, most in the last quarter-century. The dam-removal movement hit its apogee in 2024, when, by the accounting of the nonprofit American Rivers, 108 dam removals reconnected more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) of once-fragmented waterways. The year’s biggest and best publicized dam obliteration occurred on the Klamath River, where the dismantling of four aging hydroelectric dams opened more than 645 kilometers (400 miles) of spawning habitat in #California and #Oregon to #ChinookSalmon, who recolonized the watershed so rapidly that conservationists described the resurrection as 'magical.' Prior to the Klamath, the nation’s largest undamming took place on #WashingtonState ’s #ElwhaRiver, where two fish-blocking walls were obliterated on behalf of chinook, coho, steelhead, and other salmonids."
Read more:
https://biographic.com/death-by-a-thousand-dams/#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #NewEngland #NortheasternUS #RiverRestoration #FishRestoration #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRestoration #RestoringNature
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Death by a Thousand Dams
Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing northeastern streams and rivers—one tiny dam at a time.
By Ben Goldfarb
September 22, 2026Excerpt: "Since 1912, more than 2,300 dams have been purged from waterways in the United States, most in the last quarter-century. The dam-removal movement hit its apogee in 2024, when, by the accounting of the nonprofit American Rivers, 108 dam removals reconnected more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) of once-fragmented waterways. The year’s biggest and best publicized dam obliteration occurred on the Klamath River, where the dismantling of four aging hydroelectric dams opened more than 645 kilometers (400 miles) of spawning habitat in #California and #Oregon to #ChinookSalmon, who recolonized the watershed so rapidly that conservationists described the resurrection as 'magical.' Prior to the Klamath, the nation’s largest undamming took place on #WashingtonState ’s #ElwhaRiver, where two fish-blocking walls were obliterated on behalf of chinook, coho, steelhead, and other salmonids."
Read more:
https://biographic.com/death-by-a-thousand-dams/#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #NewEngland #NortheasternUS #RiverRestoration #FishRestoration #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRestoration #RestoringNature
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#WashingtonState - Largest #restoration project on #StillaguamishRiver completed to help endangered #salmon
Brandon Thompson
Fri, September 25, 2026"The #StillaguamishTribe completed its largest restoration project on the Stillaguamish River on Friday, when water from the North Fork rushed into a side channel for the first time in more than 150 years.
"The project is the latest installment in a large-scale effort by the Tribe to restore the river to how it flowed before the area was colonized in the 1800s.
"The two-mile stretch of river, 230 acres of surrounding land, and the projects to come will be vital to restoring #salmon #habitat, reducing #wildfire risk, and protecting homes from flood damage, according to Jason Griffith and Kadi Bizyayeva with the tribe.
" 'You can see this project is that large, and that's the scale of habitat that's been lost.' Griffith said, 'We've lost thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat, and we're working piece by piece to put thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat back on the landscape.'
"Griffith, the environmental program manager, has helped the Tribe buy the land that was a former #GolfCourse, #CattleRanch, and tree farm.
"Construction and acquisition combined cost close to $15 million.
"The #EndangeredSpecies List has #CohoSalmon as endangered of extinction and #ChumSalmon as threatened with extinction. This project primarily intends to help protect these types of fish."
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Floodplain #EnvironmentalRestoration #HabitatRestoration #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #RestoringNature
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#WashingtonState - Largest #restoration project on #StillaguamishRiver completed to help endangered #salmon
Brandon Thompson
Fri, September 25, 2026"The #StillaguamishTribe completed its largest restoration project on the Stillaguamish River on Friday, when water from the North Fork rushed into a side channel for the first time in more than 150 years.
"The project is the latest installment in a large-scale effort by the Tribe to restore the river to how it flowed before the area was colonized in the 1800s.
"The two-mile stretch of river, 230 acres of surrounding land, and the projects to come will be vital to restoring #salmon #habitat, reducing #wildfire risk, and protecting homes from flood damage, according to Jason Griffith and Kadi Bizyayeva with the tribe.
" 'You can see this project is that large, and that's the scale of habitat that's been lost.' Griffith said, 'We've lost thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat, and we're working piece by piece to put thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat back on the landscape.'
"Griffith, the environmental program manager, has helped the Tribe buy the land that was a former #GolfCourse, #CattleRanch, and tree farm.
"Construction and acquisition combined cost close to $15 million.
"The #EndangeredSpecies List has #CohoSalmon as endangered of extinction and #ChumSalmon as threatened with extinction. This project primarily intends to help protect these types of fish."
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Floodplain #EnvironmentalRestoration #HabitatRestoration #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #RestoringNature
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#WashingtonState - Largest #restoration project on #StillaguamishRiver completed to help endangered #salmon
Brandon Thompson
Fri, September 25, 2026"The #StillaguamishTribe completed its largest restoration project on the Stillaguamish River on Friday, when water from the North Fork rushed into a side channel for the first time in more than 150 years.
"The project is the latest installment in a large-scale effort by the Tribe to restore the river to how it flowed before the area was colonized in the 1800s.
"The two-mile stretch of river, 230 acres of surrounding land, and the projects to come will be vital to restoring #salmon #habitat, reducing #wildfire risk, and protecting homes from flood damage, according to Jason Griffith and Kadi Bizyayeva with the tribe.
" 'You can see this project is that large, and that's the scale of habitat that's been lost.' Griffith said, 'We've lost thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat, and we're working piece by piece to put thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat back on the landscape.'
"Griffith, the environmental program manager, has helped the Tribe buy the land that was a former #GolfCourse, #CattleRanch, and tree farm.
"Construction and acquisition combined cost close to $15 million.
"The #EndangeredSpecies List has #CohoSalmon as endangered of extinction and #ChumSalmon as threatened with extinction. This project primarily intends to help protect these types of fish."
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Floodplain #EnvironmentalRestoration #HabitatRestoration #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #RestoringNature
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#WashingtonState - Largest #restoration project on #StillaguamishRiver completed to help endangered #salmon
Brandon Thompson
Fri, September 25, 2026"The #StillaguamishTribe completed its largest restoration project on the Stillaguamish River on Friday, when water from the North Fork rushed into a side channel for the first time in more than 150 years.
"The project is the latest installment in a large-scale effort by the Tribe to restore the river to how it flowed before the area was colonized in the 1800s.
"The two-mile stretch of river, 230 acres of surrounding land, and the projects to come will be vital to restoring #salmon #habitat, reducing #wildfire risk, and protecting homes from flood damage, according to Jason Griffith and Kadi Bizyayeva with the tribe.
" 'You can see this project is that large, and that's the scale of habitat that's been lost.' Griffith said, 'We've lost thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat, and we're working piece by piece to put thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat back on the landscape.'
"Griffith, the environmental program manager, has helped the Tribe buy the land that was a former #GolfCourse, #CattleRanch, and tree farm.
"Construction and acquisition combined cost close to $15 million.
"The #EndangeredSpecies List has #CohoSalmon as endangered of extinction and #ChumSalmon as threatened with extinction. This project primarily intends to help protect these types of fish."
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Floodplain #EnvironmentalRestoration #HabitatRestoration #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #RestoringNature
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#WashingtonState - Largest #restoration project on #StillaguamishRiver completed to help endangered #salmon
Brandon Thompson
Fri, September 25, 2026"The #StillaguamishTribe completed its largest restoration project on the Stillaguamish River on Friday, when water from the North Fork rushed into a side channel for the first time in more than 150 years.
"The project is the latest installment in a large-scale effort by the Tribe to restore the river to how it flowed before the area was colonized in the 1800s.
"The two-mile stretch of river, 230 acres of surrounding land, and the projects to come will be vital to restoring #salmon #habitat, reducing #wildfire risk, and protecting homes from flood damage, according to Jason Griffith and Kadi Bizyayeva with the tribe.
" 'You can see this project is that large, and that's the scale of habitat that's been lost.' Griffith said, 'We've lost thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat, and we're working piece by piece to put thousands of acres of fish and wildlife habitat back on the landscape.'
"Griffith, the environmental program manager, has helped the Tribe buy the land that was a former #GolfCourse, #CattleRanch, and tree farm.
"Construction and acquisition combined cost close to $15 million.
"The #EndangeredSpecies List has #CohoSalmon as endangered of extinction and #ChumSalmon as threatened with extinction. This project primarily intends to help protect these types of fish."
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Floodplain #EnvironmentalRestoration #HabitatRestoration #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #RestoringNature