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Perhaps this winter we'll hear reports of salmon being spotted from the Jenny Creek or Copco bridges. I can only imagine how exciting that'll be and hope it will help remedy lingering doubts and local worry. The process of recovery is not expected to be quick though. It may take many years before we see huge returns. Some will say it's for the next generation. The excitement for now is in seeing it begin and imagining the possibilities.

There are no salmon that came from Upper Klamath Lake. I thought salmon instinctively swim back to where they were born. Why would they swim hundreds of miles to a place they've never been before?

@michaelrunnels7660 I'm not a fish biologist but I've asked one. Salmonids generally return to their natal stream but not always. Some will be more nomadic and will explore their options. Some will go up river because they can. Pit tagging fish and tracking them is how the fish biologists know this. As for restoring the numbers above Iron Gate, it may take some human intervention. The hatchery at Fall Creek, just below Wards Canyon is an 8 year commitment to help jump start that. Oregon is taking a more passive approach - waiting to see what happens naturally. There are unknowns for sure. It's a very exciting time to be learning from the fish - I'm eager to see what happens but not expecting much too soon. Just hoping like everyone else that extinction isn't the alternative.

@@michaelrunnels7660 that’s why we have hatcheries, they can be reintroduced, and let go in rivers that they can access again thank to dam removal

The Upper Klamath Basin is beautiful but one has to be tough to endure its extremes. I do not have the stamina required to endure much summer heat but the mornings and evenings provide some releif. Unfortunately, that’s when the mosquitoes want blood.

Thank you for noticing. The birds are part of it all, they motivate me to record while photographing. The ambient sounds behind the imagery are always from location of the imagery well within an hour or so of filming. A precise match is not always enjoyable - the drone is too noisy for that.

Thank you for sharing your hope. Positive thinking helps build a positive outcome.

I’m always wondering what everything looks like too and I’m happy to share what I sometimes see.

Thank you. I agree. It's not easy to satiate the curiosity and the social politics are tricky. My only privilege is the desire to see what I can with enough tenacity to endure some pain - it's a minimum five year commitment. To respond to an earlier comment, did you notice the tree at the Williamson River? It looks like a dying cottonwood much like the one at Kitty Ward's ranch. I've not made a detailed comparison yet but most everything except elevation displays similar features.

There are a lot of huge, old cottonwood trees around Klamath lake. I especially like the ones along the west shore between Crystal springs Malone springs and Rocky point. The tree by Kitty Ward's ranch could very well be a cottonwood. I believe that area was a lot cooler and wetter when that tree would have germinated. But given the fact it's growing right on the riverbank, the climate back then may have had little effect on it.

The physical dam removal is happening quick and in progress at 6-7 days a week. The river is still passing through the release tunnels at Boyle, Copco 1, and Iron Gate but all is expected to be gone by this fall.

@@meridianphoto wow. I hope you get to capture the deconstruction of it with your drone videos. That would be so cool to see.

It's work in progress, native bunch grass is part of the seed mix and root balls and and such have been stockpiled for placement. My guess, we'll see what you're saying this fall.

The thing about fall runoff and reintroduction of silt concern is that the silt is mostly the same sticky sort of soil that's above the former waterline now covered in sheet grass and star thistle. It will take awhile to revegetate for sure and the race is on to avoid the nasties but that soil may hold better than first thought and not wash away so quick as to kill. There will be additional seeding before autumn rain. Anyway, we all make our best bets from experience and my bet suggests it will get muddy with low DO but the fish will find the clear water side streams and will spawn for the first time in my lifetime within my lifetime. I don't worry about this fall but this summer? Yes, I do. And yes, this video is misleading if it's expected to be anything more than what that day was like. That's why I revisit these locales over and over and over and why each release has the date in the title. We all see small bits of the bigger picture anyway. That's why Its important we all add what we can and work for success. Thanks for sharing.

Tell us that you don't know what you're talking about, without telling us you don't know what you're talking about.

Okay, so I'm slow. I drive slow too. I like to see and think about what I see. It's not for you - that's fine too. I do agree that removal is a loss for many whose lives were attached to reservoir lifestyles. For them the transition is difficult. However, jumping on the whining wagon doesn't help solve problems either. To have continued the life killing legacy of the Boyle dams despite a hundred years of learning would truly have been asinine.

@@meridianphoto we will need water.

@Blake4625kHz that's for certain. However, managing the river for hydro power provided very little actual storage for either drought or flood conditions. If managed for storage and fish the "lake" would likely look a lot like the Trinity. Obviously not enough water for that. Important to note, the regulating dams at Link and Keno continue to divert water from the Klamath River for upper basin agricultural interests - as per longstanding agreements. My understanding is that removal of the four dams below Keno did not take water rights away from irrigation interests. At some point the National Marine Fisheries may adjust their biological opinion that regulates Keno and Link but that's getting in way too deep for me.

Asinine would be keeping the dam in place

@@gregorymilla9213 Asinine to have your as s as a dam, it would with hold the Atlantic ocean