Undamming a river, rebuilding a forest | WILD HOPE
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Ten years after the largest dam removal in history-on the Elwha River, in Washington State-scientists are chronicling an inspiring story of ecological rebirth. Recovering salmon populations are transferring critical nutrients from the ocean into the forests along the Elwha’s banks, enriching the entire ecosystem. The Elwha’s revival is encouraging advocates to push for the removal of many larger dams in the region, and in the rest of the world.
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The most hopeful thing I have seen on the internet in a long time.
Congratulations on winning a hard-fought battle. Your people deserve to have your way of life restored.
Then the reintroduction of Beaver into the smaller streams and tributaries will help hold water and build up the steady state watershed. It's such a great thing to see the region return to it's past health.
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Taking. Care of Gia
Nobody will go for that.
Now the Indians want the land back to build gambling casinos & gas stations
Beaver dams slow and warm the water and trap sediment. I would love to see some long term data on their effects. I don't think they are the positive you think they are.
I've been to this place many times before and after the dam removal. I'd recommend people who visit Seattle make it a point to visit the area above the removed dams. It's amazing how quickly it's reclaimed itself.
I live in Shelton 90 miles south of the Elwah. My county took out our small dam on Goldsborough Creek. This is no small undertaking. The habitat needs to be rebuilt. Many trees and native plants planted and replanted until they are well established. It was pretty ugly for awhile, but now I can walk a couple miles from my home and find wildwater; the best kind. I was honored to help with the restoration of Nalley Island on the Skokomish Land. Volunteers can really help make a big project smaller.
congratz to the ELwah tribe finally having their river back
Congrats on all of us having the river back
I lived on the Oregon/Idaho border, where the snake river was the dividing line between the two states. As an Oregon resident the Salmon and Steelhead fishing was closed due to low returns, however Idaho kept the Salmon and Steelhead fishing season open due to their right to fish those fish regardless of the fish numbers decline. These efforts to take down the dams are the first step to restore the fisheries in the areas. The next step is to get All of the states to act as one in restoration. Washington state and Oregon state, and parts of California can't be the only ones to take the restorations seriously. Idaho also needs to be on board and restrict the fishing of these fish in order to fully restore the fisheries.
Pretty sure the coastal states have the Most "responsibility" when it comes to this. Seeing as the fish are coming from the ocean. By the time the fish have made it to Idaho and the likes I think the major obstacles have been overcome.
@@leegoddard2618I disagree, it should be a combined effort. Everything in nature is connected, including the rivers and dams in the water sheds.
@@Nee96Nee fine, tax 'em. 😑😜
@@leegoddard2618- so there are no dams in Idaho? Other states should close their fishing seasons to allow more fish to reach Idaho, spawn, and increase fish numbers so that Idahoans can fish unabated? The fisheries will recover much faster for everyone IF Idaho does it’s fair share.
@@kd8199 yeah, it's ALL Idaho's fault. 🤦😜
I hope to see the snake river dams come down in my lifetime.
Progress is measured in many ways. Some consider the building of dams to be progress. Some consider their removal as progress. It fills my heart with joy to see these rivers, restored. To see the hard work of the lovers of nature, the salmon, the forests, and the wildlife thriving is wonderful. Jack
I grew up in area and remember the debates/arguments we had in high school, the early 80's, and all the nay sayers. Their biggest argument against dam removal was that "it would never recover, so just let it be." Nature will find away if just left alone. Since the removal the Elwha Clallam have had a resurgence of pride for who they were, are and will become as a group.
I was a student at Peninsula College when there was a studium generale with the pro’s and con’s stating their cases. And now, the beauty, knowledge, and experience
Very inspiring! I'm hopeful that after the four dams on the Klamath River are removed the benefits will be positive as well. Next hopefully are the dams along the lower Snake River.
This is a great video on the importance of removing old technology that disrupted nature. Working with nature instead of against it is the only way humanity can continue to grow. The narrator is excellent, very smooth voice.
So inspiring! I used to work on the Salmon River in Idaho, which is part of the Columbia River drainage. There's a salmon restoration project underway there too, and I hope the dam removals downstream come to pass so Idaho can become truly rich in nutrients and fish again!
Was forest biologist forOlympic National Forest during fight to remove dam. Sooo happy to see this marvelous portrait of habitat rejuvenation. Awesome opportunity for intensive monitoring to spur future dam removals.
DOES bring tears to my eyes!!!!!
Thanks to the People who Fought to Remove the Dam and allow the River to Heal and Flow once more!!
Having the insight to do the right thing is refreshing and gives all Americans hope for a healthier future...
Yes all of us Americans👍👍
Love seeing how much it has changed. I was out there a couple years after the dams were removed and it's fantastic to see how much it has changed and grown!
Having grown up in Washington, I have seen the salmon populations returning in limited numbers but the work is not done. Seattle City light is fighting local tribes to keep many dams in place. I hope the local tribes can overcome these companies.
I've been following this story since the beginning. It is so awe inspiring to see all of the changes! Undaming the Snake River would be a miracle!!
The 190 million beavers removed from the system since european introduction has had a dramatic effect on the strength and robustness of our wetland environments. Natural vs man made dams are anight and day went talking about the ecology they support.
Beaver. Buffalo. Salmon. So many animals that helped all of nature were nearly wiped out.
I love your comment. I am a big advocate of beaver habitat restoration. Few have any idea how many beavers were in North America, or anything about the wetlands they created across the continent. Their value to our environment cannot be overstated.
Bio-diversity keeps all things alive.
Really amazing to see the rapid change to the river and the benefits brought to the wildlife! And it's great to see my backyard being shown here.
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I'm closely tracking the Klamath dams removal near me; this video is the most inspiring thing I've seen. Thank you!
I have not seen any data that suggests that there is any real recovery on some large scale.
@@sweynforkbeard8857 they are still in the early stages of removal.
Hiked this basin before and after. Some dams have benefits that can balance the costs, but not on the Elwah. The mouth of the river has been completely transformed for the better.
Bravo to all who worked on this and best wishes for the tribe.
The River is our lifeblood. 🌎🌊🌲🔥🌪 ❤️
This is a beautiful documentary and I hope many people view this. Years ago I saw the first pictures that were taken of Native Americans who lived on the River and the Salmon that were their lives. The pictures had been colorized and the red Salmon meat drying in the sun seemed to be miles long. It truly was a spectacular sight. The Salmon are the ecosystem. Salmon DNA was found in the trees from Bears who leave the half eaten fish to decay in the soil. The return of Salmon will bring the return of wildlife. Every thing will change and this is the Earth healing. The Dipper birds are fascinating. They dive into the coldest water and "fly" through the strongest currents to feed. Watching the dam blow up was awesome. Imagine the feeling that gentleman had pushing the detonator!!! Kinda envious 😅 I hope that in ten year's time or so, another documentary update is made on the River and its' ecosystem. Thank you for this documentary ‼️🥰
I like how so far in this series, each episode focuses on a creature classified as a keystone species. So far, the Red Woodpecker, Beaver, and now Salmon. Incredible.
This makes my cry with enthusiasm for our salmon, salmon are indeed our miners canary, they go extinct we go extinct, nothing but praise for your efforts. GODS SPEED.
Excellent program! Thank you❤️
I never knew about dam removal. Thank you fore educating me.
What a wonderful inspirational story. Well done to all those involved in the recovery and healing of the land and river.
Greatest I have ever seen on KZhead. Almost brings tears to my eyes. WONDERFUL. Get rid of all the dams.
No. We need hydropower, which is mostly carbon-free electricity. Getting rid of old dams that don't generate a lot, but hurt the environment is tolerable, but not ALL of them. I'm off to find videos on hydropower.
It's good to see native peoples (who weren't consulted, moved off their land and are traditionally marginalised) get their rivers back and to see nature being restored
So cool to see what nature does when allowed to recover.
Its so nice to see this heartwarming story in these dark times.
I wish it was this simple where I live, here we have pollution killing our river and our eels (basically what salmon are to you) my great grandfather used to survive off the river back when we still lived in simple dirt huts but sadly later in life when eels already almost all disappeared and pollution was at its highest (the 70's) it was also what killed him, he died of a rare type of cancer.
i grew up in northern Washington I've been there when the dam was still there...I'm so happy to see it gone...not the rest of them need to be taken down.
in BC, and BC Hydro has more than 80 dams across the province. in my Town: Campbell River has 3 on the same river alone. With the technology we have in this day and age, we dont needs dams for Hydroelectricity, Flow generators, and tidal flow generators are producing as much or more power than dams from the days past.
Amazing restoration! I’d like to see more information on ecologically friendly hydroelectric production as a source of non fossil energy.
Do the research 🧐 yourself
Thanks Nature on PBS 👍
Wonderful information for all! Many thanks👏
I'm so happy for the people who started this and made it a huge success. It was a great education for me as well. I love smoked salmon and used to catch limits of 3 often. As a community of people who have counted on the salmon for generations to see this completed must be a dream come true. I'm so happy for them.
It’s good to study them and focus on good things
Beautiful! Thank you! Blessings.
Nature knows it has champions fighting for it. Good job folks!
This is an amazing story and a great accomplishment, yet it is just one (large) step in the restoration of the river. The streams and creeks that feed the river must also be protected and restored, allowing beavers to create dams and wetlands that will feed fresh water to the river during the drier summer months. If we are serious about restoring rivers and fish, we must protect and preserve our rivers from the headwaters to the sea. The cost of this will be extremely high, but the benefits will far outweigh the costs.
I grew up on the Kitsap Peninsula. I hiked the Olympic Press Trail when I was a kid in the early '80's. We ended up at Elkhorn on the Elwah. Some beautiful country.
I love birds and all animals ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I grew up here, and am fascinated to see the changes. It gives me such hope.
I love this series, lets us know if we work together, trust scientists and indigenous peoples' and realize that humans cannot control nature but can nurture and assist it, anything is possible. It all seems so hopeless most of the time and any optimism seems quaint and almost naive but seeing this series is great to see REAL possible change for the better with quantifiable results, metrics that prove the results. Hope without logic is just a dream, to combine hope with work, logic and community is where hope becomes reality. Everything is impossible until it's not.
THANK YOU
Loved this. Thank you for filming and telling this important story. So interesting and hopeful!
I live blocks away from the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. We have three lock and dams that are still owned and somewhat operational by the US Army Corps. They are in the process of deciding what to do with them since barge traffic is no longer coming up this far in the river. Our situation is different than the Pacific Northwest, since we don’t have the keystone specie migration up here. Actually, the dams and St. Anthony falls are serving an important function keeping the invasive Asian Carp out of the more northern stretches of the river. We also have a couple of modest sized hydro power facilities on the dams. I canoe and kayak these waters and am conflicted over what is to be done. Whatever is decided, I hope it’s the best thing for the ecosystem, long term. The progress in the PNW in dam removal is just so wonderful, I’ve watch a number of these documentaries and it is amazing to see nature restores its self when given the chance. I’m also so happy for the native communities that have their heritage restored. Folks are working on similar programs with the bison here in Minnesota, though they are tiny compared to the historic range of the animals.
Is there anything being done to the invasive Asian Carps?
Are they edible in anyway? Like feeding it to bears and other wildlife animals?
@@robertlee8805 the US Fish and Wildlife service is studying them and their advancement up the rivers. The biggest threat is in the Chicago Sanitary Canal. There they have a high voltage electric barrier in the channel. If the carp make it into Lake Michigan, there will be nothing to stop them from taking over all the Great Lakes and threatening a large commercial fishery that already suffered heavy metal poisoning and Sea Lamprey, as well as other invasive. The carp are a marketable fish, the challenge is making it a profitable industry.
this is awesome! i live in new hampshire and my town voted last year to remove a dam that was installed in the 1600s, i'm so excited to see the effects it has on the environment. atlantic salmon populations have been in decline for centuries here so hopefully they'll have a similar restoration story to those in the pacific northwest!
Thank you! I really enjoyed getting to see and learn about this beautiful part of the United States that I have never visited. God blessed us with a beautiful country, a beautiful planet, and the life He created in it will thrive and renew itself if we just give it a chance.
Your ancestors are supporting and holding space for your dedication, determination to make manifest into the next now successful ❤ A'ho 💦
That Bird is so awesome.
It’s a shame we Americans didn’t listen and learn from the American Indians prior to building these dams. It’s great that we finally understand and are fixing these rivers. We are opening up Klamath river in CA too. 😎🤙
May God bless all whom protect and free the spirit of nature 😇🧚♂️
This is so powerful and beautiful,its making me cry with joy!💗☺️💗☺️💗
It is not just about restoring the ecosystems, but the energy of the humans will definately change for the better due to the positive clean waterflow through the river being restored.
I feel that schools should talk about this subjects to the students to engage them in biology science and animals and the marine life❤❤❤❤❤
amazing, good work!
I was reminded of a grad student I knew at Oregon State who was working to sequence the DNA of salmon in all the rivers that flow from the Coast Range. He was involved over an argument between fishermen and conservationists: in a river that was being restored the fishermen wanted salmon brought in from hatcheries to repopulate rapidly while the conservationists wanted the native salmon to repopulate naturally. His work showed just how genetically distinct the populations in different streams were, including all the tributary streams, which enabled the wildlife people to start a program of the different hatcheries propagating not just whatever population they could easily get eggs from but keeping the offspring from each stream separate and always taken back to the stream they came from.
I was feeling incredibly despondent today and this episode gave me hope, thank you!
Bravo, BRAVO!!
*Nothing is more beautiful than untouched natural landscapes* - not even Gucci purses (sorry that was an insult and bad joke) 😍😍
Excellent video and I'm glad to have seen Elwha before, and soon to see it now, hopefully this spring.
Thank you for sharing this inspiring video ❤
Excellent doku!
Salmon is life
So excited to see dams coming down so salmon and other animals and plants can return! Put the First Nations in charge- they will lnow what to to to heal the land!🙏❤🙏
Dam,I have to agree 💯 with what was said and done. I really hope they continue to remove other unnecessary dams and help revive more of the ecosystem.
Fantastic...well done
"I feel like I'm at home" I love you all so much. Hugs
amazing documentary, loved this
Love this. Undamn the rivers! It just makes me more excited for the Klamath and Eel rivers dam removals! The first of the Klamath's four dams has already come down, with the rest scheduled for 2024. Dismantling the Potter Valley project dams on the Eel should start in a few years, as soon as Sonoma can bring itself to let go of some of its free water and bureaucracy does its thing. Still, there is an end!
It’s so gratifying to see these dams come down and these ecosystems being restored. I remember watching the documentary DamNation when it first came out. That documentary first informed me about the catastrophic impact dams caused to fish and wildlife. I can’t believe it’s already been 10 years since then. I’m really hoping more dams come down and more ecosystems are restored.🌲🐟🦌
It's amazing the power of nature, that after a hundred years of abuse and neglect that in just ten years it's recovered/recovering so quickly.. All dams need to be removed for the sake of all living creatures and vegetation, including us.
Beautiful. Well done people of nature. Human greed is travesty .i don't understand how people can want to leave their offspring money but no nature, no real life. Dreadful way to think.
Awesome for for All people.
Let’s do the whole Colombia river valley from Canada all the way to the ocean now
the earth, environment we live in today - we’re not gonna pass/inherit them to the next generations, it’s we - we borrow them - so we must return them in a good conditions to the next generations👍🏾 that’s the mindset we must have now and I am glad I found this documentary❤ thankyou💐☘️🐟🦌
Thats so beautiful to see🤗❤
❤Incredible work! I hope more dams will be removed and we can help return nature to her former glory.😊
Great story!
amazing work guys :).
Being a woman in my late 50s raised in the desert, I was watching with great trepidation as they said they are going to examine the dippers diet. Then they found a critical male helping to positively evolve the ecosphere and said they were going to bleed him. 😮. I am glad I hung on to see their definition of bleeding and mine are very, very different😅.
Ahhh man, I am so excited and so happy that this is happening! I mean don't get me wrong dams had their place back in the day but it's definitely time for them to go. Thank you for making and sharing this content °~•.☆.•~°
They still do. Take away Hoover dam and see what happens
You realize the Colombia River is the most radioactively polluted river in the US? The Hanford site had nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the more than sixty thousand weapons built for the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
I'm happy to see habitat restoration and re-wilding. I wonder though how the region plans to make up for the electricity generation that was once provided by the dam.
Wonderful ❤️
There’s hope for humanity yet.
This video is very inspiring to me.
Good stuff!
I have heard that the salmon run is crucial to the forest ecology. The bear and eagles take salmon for food and the carcasses are scattered all over the forest floor fertilizing the forest. You say, "how can that be significant?" But realize that the Sahara desert sends dust to Florida every year, or at least most years except for La Nina. These atmospheric events move material across whole oceans. Now how is that significant? But it is.
the hard part is over, now it's time to watch the rewards of the efforts grow back
awesome!