#restorenature — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #restorenature, aggregated by home.social.
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💚🥁 See you Saturday in Amsterdam! #ActTheFuckNow #HandsOffNature #RestoreNature #EUGreenDeal #ClimateMarch @ProgressiefNederland
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#WellsME - #PipingPlover #BeachWalkAndTalk
Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 1:00pm – 3:00pmReservations Required
Cost: Free with site admission"Come learn about the piping plover and what makes it so special, while taking a walk on #LaudholmBeach!
"In 1981 there were only seven pairs of piping plovers in the entire state of Maine. After decades of hard work and dedication, in 2025 there was a record 174 pairs recorded! Come learn about this federally threatened and state endangered beach-nesting shorebird and what makes it so special. Helen Manning, a Wildlife Biologist from #RachelCarsonNationalWildlifeRefuge, will lead an educational walk on the Wells Reserves Laudholm Beach to discuss the biology of the piping plover and the monitoring and management efforts that have helped this species begin to make a recovery."
FMI and to register:
https://wellsreserve.org/event/87678/piping-plover-beach-walk-and-talk#RestoreNature #SpeciesRecovery #MaineEvents #LaudholmReserve #SolarPunkSunday #ObservingNature
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#WellsME - #Rewilding Presentation
Monday, March 23, 2026, 12:00pm – 1:00pmJoin photographer Steve Morello for a journey through the rewilding of his southern Maine property!
"For years, renown photographer Steve Morello planned on having his own personal sanctuary where he could retire and photograph in his own little space. His journey to rewild his property here in Maine was both rewarding but also a big learning experience. Join him for a conical on this journey to restore and revive what has become the teaching facility at Little River Photo in North Berwick."
Reservations Not Required
Suggested Donation: $5.00Location:
Mather Auditorium, #WellsReserve at #Laudholm
342 Laudholm Farm Rd, Wells ME 04090This event is handicap accessible.
FMI:
https://wellsreserve.org/event/82959/rewilding#SolarPunkSunday #LearnAboutNature #MaineEvents #RestoreNature
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'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next?
The #KlamathRiver is free of four huge dams for the first time in generations. But for the #Yurok tribe, the river's restoration is only just beginning – starting with 18 billion seeds.
by Lucy Sheriff, September 3, 2024
"This is decades and decades in the making," says Thompson. 'We were told it was never going to happen. That it was foolish to even ask for one removal. We were asking for four.'
"The #KlamathBasin covers more than 12,000 square miles (31,000 sq km) in southern Oregon and northern California, and was home to the JC Boyle, Copco 1, Copco 2 and Iron Gate dams, all owned by #PacifiCorp, an electric utilities company. The Klamath was once the third-largest salmon producing river on the US's West Coast before the construction of the dams blocked fish from accessing almost 400 miles (640km) of critical river habitat for almost 100 years.
"Fall #ChinookSalmon numbers plummeted by more than 90% and spring chinook by 98%. #SteelheadTrout, #CohoSalmon and #PacificLamprey numbers also saw drastic declines, and the Klamath tribes in the upper basin have been without their salmon fishery for a century, since the completion of #Copco 1 in 1922. The situation became so bad that Yurok tribe – who are known as the salmon people – began importing Alaskan salmon for their annual salmon festival, traditionally held to celebrate the first return of fall chinook salmon to the Klamath River.
"The dams also had a severe impact on #WaterTemperature and quality – growth of #ToxicAlgae behind two of the dams resulted in health warnings against water contact.
"'It was painful,' says Willard Carlson, a Yurok elder who is known as a #RiverWarrior and was part of the inter-generational campaign. 'All those years seeing our river damaged like that. I remember as a kid we'd have other people from nearby tribes making fun of our river. 'Oh, you're Yurok, your river is dirty.' For us, the #dams were a monument to the [#coloniser] people who conquered us."
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"Restoring the land
But something that does need "a helping hand is the restoration of 2,200 acres (890ha) of land that is above ground for the first time in a century following the emptying of four reservoirs.
"'Removing the dams is one thing, restoring the land is quite another,' says Thompson, a civil engineer and part of the crew working on the restoration project – which is being managed by Resource Environmental Solutions, an ecological restoration company."
#KarukTribe #YurokTribe #KlamathRiverRenewal #RestoreNature #Decolonize #WaterIsLife #NativeAmericans
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The largest dam removal project in the US is completed a major win for #Indigenous tribes
The #KlamathRiver dams removal project was a significant win for tribal nations on the #Oregon-#California border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Published Sep 2, 2024"The largest dam removal project in US history is finally complete, after crews last week demolished the last of the four dams on the Klamath River. It’s a significant win for tribal nations on the #OregonCalifornia border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.
"The removal of the four hydroelectric dams — #IronGateDam, #CopcoDams 1 and 2, and #JCBoyleDam — allows the region’s iconic #salmon population to swim freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries, which the species have not been able to do for over a century since the dams were built.
"Mark Bransom, chief executive officer of the #KlamathRiverRenewal Corporation, the nonprofit group created to oversee the project, said it was a 'celebratory moment,' as his staff members, conservationists, government officials and tribal members gathered and cheered on the bank of the river near where the largest of the dams, Iron Gate, once stood.
"Federal regulators approved the plan to raze the dams in 2022. The next year, the smallest of the four dams, Copco No. 2, was removed. Crews then began releasing water from the dams’ reservoirs at the beginning of this year, which was necessary before dismantling the last remaining dams.
"The river system has been steeped in controversy: During the recent historic #WesternDrought that dried up the #KlamathBasin, an intense #WaterWar pitted local farmers against #Indigenous tribes, government agencies and conservationists.
"But anxiety turned to joy for the #IndigenousPeople who have lived for centuries among the Klamath and its tributaries.
"'We all came together in the moment with a feeling that ranged from pure joy to anticipation to excitement,' Bransom told CNN. 'For the first time in over 100 years, the river is now back in its historical channel, and I think that was an extraordinarily profound moment for people to actually witness that — the reconnecting of a river.'
"The #Yurok Tribe in Northern California are known as the '#SalmonPeople.' To them, the salmon are sacred species that are central to their culture, diet and ceremonies. As the story goes, the spirit that created the salmon also created humans and without the fish, they would cease to exist."
#RestoreNature #ProtectTheSacred #WaterIsLife #SolarPunkSunday
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Good morning from the Hellfire trail on #WorldEarthDay 💚
#sunrise #wildlife #biodiversity #nature #restorenature #deer -
“Ancient trees are precious. There is little else on Earth that plays host to such a rich community of life within a single living organism.”
Sir David Attenborough
#WorldEarthDay #restorenature #trees #SundayMotivation -
This would be a great story to share with fish and seafood places and restaurants here in the USA
#QysterShells #oyster #seafoodrestaurants #restaurants #fish #shellfish #OysterReefs #RestroreOysterReefs #RestoreNature