Thanks for including a photo of my ancestors, Andrew Davidson Firebaugh and his Firebaugh's Ferry, in this excellent documentary. Andrew was my 2nd Great Grand-Uncle, b.1823 - d.1875.
I grew up four miles from the river. "Scout Island" was my home away from home. Old now, I scouted a walking route from the 99 to Friant. Too much travel on that hot road. Miles of yellow thistle! I do not recommend this route! But he real point is I know my own country. You speak of my home. You know us valley people. All truth is required. Not one false word do you utter. Respect.
Christopher, thank you for this, and your bravery. I don't know when this was produced, but 2020 brought about a horrible time in censorship to our country. I'm from MN but started researching the water situation in the west about 5 years ago. I learned about Tulare Lake's draining for the cotton fields of JG Boswell. I also learned about how Tulare Lake would create its own weather patterns during evaporation of the hot summers. Evaporation would create storms in the mountains that would run down the rivers and replenish the lake. I experienced censorship during covid, as did many of my friends - some in the medical field. I never in my lifetime (59 yo) thought that this could or would ever occur in our country. Again, I thank you for this.
@@music4thedeafactually, all the dams on every major river flowing into the Tulare lake basin were built between the the mid 1940 through the mid 1950's time frame, jg Boswell was buying up parcels of swamp land, and to grow cotton, levy's had to be built to drain each proposed cotton field, so yea, he was the creator of kesterson's mutated waterfowl, but by then he skated off with all his bags of money.
@@yourchava The OP (Christopher) gave info about the censorship in the video notes, above, wherein he describes it. This is occurring in all fields, all over the world. You would think that a film such as this would be a PBS favorite and be backed by environmentalists without question. But this is no longer true. Instead of blaming man for issues addressed in this film, 'climate change' becomes the default culprit - and any attempts to argue otherwise are labelled as 'denial'. This film was wonderful in that it showed first-hand accounts, photos, and film of what the river once was. This cannot be denied; thus, it must be censored. It showed differing opinions, too. In my hometown, climate was blamed for beach erosion and grants were received to nourish the beach with dredging spoils. I researched and found a published university study from the 1960s that, in great detail, named the harbor construction, dredging, dam installation, hard surface runoff from development, etc. as causing the loss of the beach's sand & sources. Their predictions were right on. What bothers me is that no one from the university spoke up. This happens all the time and I believe this is a form of censorship, too. 'Moon-Shot' pandemic flu vaccines were quickly halted in 1976 & 2009, due to adverse effects. Yet, doctors that question a new shot today are silenced and have their careers threatened. Nearly all social media platforms participate in censorship in one form or another. I believe this is common knowledge.
I grew up playing in this river, such great memories. Thanks for your hard work Chris, your film will last forever and be seen for generations to come!!!
To be fair, the Central Valley is not a desert. It receives far more rainfall during the rainy season, & there is also no native desert foliage or plants in the Central Valley. Not a desert.
@@brucepoole8552 The southern part is not desert, if you're talking about Kern county around the Bakersfield area. It was a very vast marshland. At one time, Buena Vista was a large lake, covering an area of 60 to 150 square miles. Tulare Lake, on the other hand, was an even much larger lake. The two lakes were connected and fed into each other, with Buena Vista Lake overflowing into Tulare Lake through the Buena Vista Slough and Kern River channel, passing through tule marshland and Goose Lake. This connection allowed for the exchange of water between the two lakes, creating a complex hydrological system in the southern San Joaquin Valley. the transformation of this landscape began with the draining of the land for cattle grazing, which significantly altered the ecosystem and then the discovery and subsequent drilling for oil further modified the region, contributing to its current state. In fact, the city known as Bakersfield today was initially known as Kern Island.
I waited to hear something about the original people that lived in this land ! Nothing was mentioned about the tribes that this land once supported. I guess it's because No one wants to stir up the mud in the river of history . 😮
They gave up more than the Salmon. In the early 1970’s my cousin caught a fish we’ve never seen again. We were soaking worms right below the newer bridge when my cousin caught it… It was bright orange, prickly finned, like a Skullpin, but stocky, big headed… it scared my grandfather too. He had fished at the broken bridge for decades before that, and had never seen a fish like it. He used pliers to get the hook out, he wouldn’t touch the fish.
What hurt me most about this area are the cold economic facts. In the late 1990's there was an insurance scare, lots of workers falling off ladders picking our prime fruit. Then the farmers got wise and changed strategy. Get the machine to harvest. But it was not designed for the tender peach. No fruit now, only nuts, mechanically shaken. Feed the fruit hulls to the cows. Peach and almond are the same tree, the fruit has nutrients, the pit has cyanide.
Thank you for this insightful documentary. Waiting for the flow to be restored in my lifetime. All it takes is to change the law to mandate water flow and salmon habitat.
Watching this Documentary working next to it thinking of how it would look like if the dam was never built. I grew up swimming in Firebaugh, Kerman, even all the way up to the dam.
Always fascinates me to learn about dying bodies of water especially since I come from Minnesota where water is practically everywhere it's honestly hard to imagine your childhood river or lake one day nearly vanish while also leaving people's way of life at steak
Excellent quality prodution value on shoot and edit cut. i lived there for 17.5 years and im smarter for viewing this ....i water skied next to the intake for byron pump station .....crazy stuff because i drove over both canals on 580 west as a commuter for that time priod wondering where this was going and back history "pre internet days" ! Nice to watch .. Rh
That dude, talking about percentages of how to bring back the ecosystem and how to bring back the salmon as if it’s some hard thing just trying to keep his job is all he’s doing
Everyone is tricked into believing that the dams are the problem it’s not most of them have been there over 100 years the salmon problem has only been going on for the past 20 and that’s because of Chinese poaching salmon in international waters off the pacific coast.
I worked as an intern at the Bureau of Reclamation and it was amazing how greedy and entitled a lot of the rich farmers where. They would pretend to be poor working class folks but where actually quite rich and would demand water at prices magnitudes lower than what the typical household pays for water.
I grew up in Firebaugh...the San Joaquin was a shallow muddy polluted trickle but still supported some wildlife. Hope they can bring it back to a healthy river. California is such a corrupt political shit show..dont know if they will ever figure out how to get out of their own way.
What a great documentary ! I was born in the Valley and my family is here, a lot of them are Dunkards who settled a lot of land in around the Modesto and Ripen area ! Very hot but productive land ! 🙏🏼
Most Excellent Doc. I grew up near the Delta, thank you, conservationists and Farmers for all your hard work in restoring the San Joaquin River and the Salmon Run.
@@bambinal1437 A mention would be appropriate, but it's understandable they were focused on modern history. Like he says for the river, they "literally disappeared" early on in the occupation, and I'm sure little note was made of it at that time either.
Wonderful films Christopher. As a long time resident and water watcher, I think that you (and Scott and everyone else) show an unbiased and historical perspective of water quality and use in the Central Valley. I thank you for sharing these films that were before today unknown to me. All I am missing is the copyright date.
The upper river is just a short distance from the divide and the other side of the mountains. It could easily have ended up flowing east, but instead it flows all the way through the Sierras to the valley.
Large ag business with politicians in their pockets getting tax payers to build dams so they can grow almonds and pistachios in the desert of the San Juaquin to ship overseas. Each of those trees on average takes 50 gallons of water per day to yield a good crop. Please stop the madness. I'm ok with ag business and dams, just make the ag business pay for em. You'd quickly find out that growing crops that require so much water in the southern central valley is not economical and would be replaced by crops that require much less water. Just common sense approach is all that is needed. Unfortunately, Ag business is all about profit and nothing of common sense.
How long has it been since the navy began distilling water out of the ocean? Restoring the valleys isn’t that complicated. We have plenty of water and power. Doesn’t happen cause pg&e can’t figure out how to charge you for it.
Somebody I know caught a salmon at Skaggs bridge. He shot it with a bow before he knew what it was, there was no throwing it back but it had a tag on it. I figure that was probably some sort of felony. He said the meat was mushy and terrible. They'll never get salmon to run that river again. Such a colossal waste of taxpayer money.
At thirty one minute mark, I have to ask if the corn is a GMO corn? 🌽 water rights is a four letter word to some. Such a shame that the SJ. River has been stripped of its own self.
That's just crazy how they're stealing water instead of just opening that dam and what's really crazy is that we all know it and aren't doing anything about it.
I've subscribed to your channel because I spent much of my life on the San Joaquin. Documentary is just starting and I'll comment at the end Atmospheric water harvesting is the future Think airplane wing vortex captured on the ground. The water on glass outside when you put ice in it amplified Central Valley is the last freedom and must be first again. Missions on the coastal range. COLONized Gold diggers in the Sierras. Central Valley in the middle. Last freedom or and first again or nothing
I work for a government agency which was involved with invasive aquatic weeds in the river. I have been through all of the parts of the river, by boat, shown in this video. Unfortunately several parts of the river are being over grown by invasive weeds such as Water Hyacinth, Frog Bit, also know as Sponge Plant and Yellow Primrose. Little or nothing has been done about these weeds and in some places such as where the river flows under Highway 99, and much of the river north of the Mendota Dam are in danger of being completely clogged by aquatic weeds.
Putting on show releasing tore up salmon way past spawning time. The one they put in almost bellied up on release. Six figure bureaucrats. What a joke.
They know how to orchestrate a circus don’t they! Humans worst characteristic is being so naive to others! Hey i got this purple turd for sale! Yeah but it’s a turd? Yeah but it’s purple! Il take two!! Have a great day!
THIS IS QUITE INTERESTING TO ME AS I HAVE EATEN MUCH CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES PRODUCE! AS AN FARM BOY , I KNOW WHAT AGRICULTURE IS! I HAVE ALSO GREATLY BENEFITED FROM THE SAN JOANQUINE VALLEY, AS AN SANTA FE RR EMPLOYEE AT ARGENTINE SHOPS, ALONG THE GREAT TRANSCON ROUTE EASTBOUND TOWARDS CHICAGO! THIS WAS AND IS AN PRIME ROUTE FOR THE CALIFORNIA PRODUCE, MOVED IN MILLIONS OF CARS, CONTAINERS, AND TRAILERS! AS AN KANSAS RAILROADER, EVEN I HAVE BENEFITED FROM SAN JOAQUIN WATER!! KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!!
I hope that one day we can bring it back to its original beauty. Restore the salmon habitat. They were here millions of years before us. That’s just disgusting. Why is money more important than native species? We have it so backwards. What’s more important in the long run, restoration, or consumerism?
Makes no sense to destroy a river, a lake and a huge fishery so farmers can have the largest agricultural area in the entire world, when there should have been a compromise and farmers settle for simply a large agricultural area.
@@Sshooter444That's such a lazy and overused argument. Most of the unsustainable crops grown here are luxury goods and they'll rip them out for something else if it's more profitable.
That IS a good story. Orphan boy from the Midwest comes to the San Joaquin Valley, and finds peace for his soul and salmon for his dinner plate. He fights to protect the salmon and the way of life that has given him peace, but the Supreme Court throws out the case on a technicality, The man dies broken in spirit. And the last salmon run was in 1946. I'm seeing Eddie Redmayne starring as the orphan. (But the epilogue is...California wouldn't be the California it is today, 5th largest economy in the world, etc etc, if the hard decision had not been made to divert the water, which had the unfortunate side effect of eradicating the salmon.)
You can argue that California was better off when there was 10 million of us instead of 60 million (or whatever). But my parents came from Kansas and North Dakota to LA in the 1930s, and, in a way, I wouldn't have been born if they had protected the salmon and the State population had held at it's pre-Depression level.
Who asked for us to be the 5th largest economy? How many more rivers and fish will die so we can be the 4th or 3rd ...? Our appetite to expand/grow is endless. At some point, gotta step back and ask are we OK with being 10th largest but have every river flowing again? Oughtta be illegal to dam a river and consume every drop of it.
The dams are not the problem with the salmon it’s the Chinese that hang off the coast in international waters and net all the salmon that’s why we don’t have the salmon we used to it’s not just them either it’s the Russians and Japanese that do the same .
I don't get the point of this video at all, this is not a tear jerker story, it's a story of unbelievable greed, nowhere in this story did i hear a mandate by government that the san Joaquin valley was earmarked to feed the world, just greedy farmers destroying an entire pristine environment to fill their pockets and screw every reason why it should not be done and then after the deed lamenting the loss, while as all this happened it had to happen with much further destruction and then the entire deed is done in modern times, kind of stupid to hear people lament what they destroyed. it's not just silly it's crazy, how many acres of everything grown in this valley did the government hold a gun to the head of every farmer???? And no way for the masses to get a ripe fresh piece of fruit before it is flash frozen and shipped.
Then quit your job, sell everything you own, buy no food from the grocery store, throw your phone away and walk away into the wilderness. You're as greedy as they were maybe worse, we all are you gherkkin, even going into the wilderness takes a toll. Get over it.
This river runs by my little village in the my little section alone it has claimed the over 100 lives the past 10 years to be honest maybe even more that river is dangerous
Hmm have drip water system for farming like Israel does! You don't need to flood fields with water! Plus Israel recycles 90% of their waste water for farming. Plus we could have Screens to catch do/condensation & have it drip down on the fields as they do in Southern Africa in Namibia.
I have friends in Yuba and they all drip. I will say that an old Indian man there told me that the correlation between flooding and rainfall was real and when they started drip... rain slowed. I dunno if its real or not but its really sad seeing our once amazing fruit harvest be nuts olives and low hand picked glory going away.
You do with orchard trees, plus doing that helps replenish the depleted groundwater. California is not Israel, they rely on desalination plants far more than we do
@@modestoca25 Hmm they get a lot of water from the Jordon river! Plus we could use water do Trapping screens as used In Southern Africa that drips the water caught out of the air & drips it down to the ground
@johncraig7823 fog catchers only work in a few regions of the world like Chile/Peru or SF or maybe some deserts in Angola...They do not get a lot from the Jordan river because they need the water to maintain the Dead Sea levels or dust will pick up and people will inhale it like happens with the Salton Sea and the Salt Lake in Utah.
Thanks for including a photo of my ancestors, Andrew Davidson Firebaugh and his Firebaugh's Ferry, in this excellent documentary. Andrew was my 2nd Great Grand-Uncle, b.1823 - d.1875.
I grew up four miles from the river. "Scout Island" was my home away from home. Old now, I scouted a walking route from the 99 to Friant. Too much travel on that hot road. Miles of yellow thistle! I do not recommend this route!
But he real point is I know my own country. You speak of my home. You know us valley people. All truth is required. Not one false word do you utter. Respect.
I remember when I was a young teenager I fished in that River during the years of 76/ 77/78
Great effort! Beautiful scenary. Thanks for showing Human impacts.
Christopher, thank you for this, and your bravery. I don't know when this was produced, but 2020 brought about a horrible time in censorship to our country. I'm from MN but started researching the water situation in the west about 5 years ago. I learned about Tulare Lake's draining for the cotton fields of JG Boswell. I also learned about how Tulare Lake would create its own weather patterns during evaporation of the hot summers. Evaporation would create storms in the mountains that would run down the rivers and replenish the lake.
I experienced censorship during covid, as did many of my friends - some in the medical field. I never in my lifetime (59 yo) thought that this could or would ever occur in our country. Again, I thank you for this.
can you give more details of the censorship part? thank you
Only thing that kept the lake at bay was that boswells corp cut levees that pushed the water out of the lack towards alpaugh
Back in the recent heavy rains
@@music4thedeafactually, all the dams on every major river flowing into the Tulare lake basin were built between the the mid 1940 through the mid 1950's time frame, jg Boswell was buying up parcels of swamp land, and to grow cotton, levy's had to be built to drain each proposed cotton field, so yea, he was the creator of kesterson's mutated waterfowl, but by then he skated off with all his bags of money.
@@yourchava The OP (Christopher) gave info about the censorship in the video notes, above, wherein he describes it. This is occurring in all fields, all over the world. You would think that a film such as this would be a PBS favorite and be backed by environmentalists without question. But this is no longer true. Instead of blaming man for issues addressed in this film, 'climate change' becomes the default culprit - and any attempts to argue otherwise are labelled as 'denial'. This film was wonderful in that it showed first-hand accounts, photos, and film of what the river once was. This cannot be denied; thus, it must be censored. It showed differing opinions, too.
In my hometown, climate was blamed for beach erosion and grants were received to nourish the beach with dredging spoils. I researched and found a published university study from the 1960s that, in great detail, named the harbor construction, dredging, dam installation, hard surface runoff from development, etc. as causing the loss of the beach's sand & sources. Their predictions were right on. What bothers me is that no one from the university spoke up. This happens all the time and I believe this is a form of censorship, too.
'Moon-Shot' pandemic flu vaccines were quickly halted in 1976 & 2009, due to adverse effects. Yet, doctors that question a new shot today are silenced and have their careers threatened. Nearly all social media platforms participate in censorship in one form or another. I believe this is common knowledge.
I grew up playing in this river, such great memories. Thanks for your hard work Chris, your film will last forever and be seen for generations to come!!!
Fantastic documentry of the river and my homeland! Thanks!
thank u for sharing this. these are the things i care about
A great book to read is King of California, about J G Boswell and his pursuit of empire.
Christopher-I thank you for the courage to tell these stories. 😢
To be fair, the Central Valley is not a desert. It receives far more rainfall during the rainy season, & there is also no native desert foliage or plants in the Central Valley. Not a desert.
There used to be a huge Lake in the area that the Native Americans used
Also how can it be a desert if it has rivers running through it. The dams divert the water to a desert southern california.
@@californiamade5608 the southern part of the valley is desert
@@brucepoole8552 The southern part is not desert, if you're talking about Kern county around the Bakersfield area. It was a very vast marshland. At one time, Buena Vista was a large lake, covering an area of 60 to 150 square miles. Tulare Lake, on the other hand, was an even much larger lake. The two lakes were connected and fed into each other, with Buena Vista Lake overflowing into Tulare Lake through the Buena Vista Slough and Kern River channel, passing through tule marshland and Goose Lake. This connection allowed for the exchange of water between the two lakes, creating a complex hydrological system in the southern San Joaquin Valley. the transformation of this landscape began with the draining of the land for cattle grazing, which significantly altered the ecosystem and then the discovery and subsequent drilling for oil further modified the region, contributing to its current state. In fact, the city known as Bakersfield today was initially known as Kern Island.
@@music4thedeaf the nile river flows thru the sahara desert
This is really good. Thank you . 97 was a monster
I waited to hear something about the original people that lived in this land ! Nothing was mentioned about the tribes that this land once supported. I guess it's because No one wants to stir up the mud in the river of history . 😮
They gave up more than the Salmon. In the early 1970’s my cousin caught a fish we’ve never seen again.
We were soaking worms right below the newer bridge when my cousin caught it…
It was bright orange, prickly finned, like a Skullpin, but stocky, big headed… it scared my grandfather too. He had fished at the broken bridge for decades before that, and had never seen a fish like it. He used pliers to get the hook out, he wouldn’t touch the fish.
Miss the time when one can go on top of the dam. My dad used to take us up there, now it's all memories.
Agree, ever since 9/11. Now I can't take my kids there.
What hurt me most about this area are the cold economic facts. In the late 1990's there was an insurance scare, lots of workers falling off ladders picking our prime fruit. Then the farmers got wise and changed strategy. Get the machine to harvest. But it was not designed for the tender peach. No fruit now, only nuts, mechanically shaken. Feed the fruit hulls to the cows. Peach and almond are the same tree, the fruit has nutrients, the pit has cyanide.
This is an amazing time capsule
Great work chris
Thank you for this insightful documentary. Waiting for the flow to be restored in my lifetime. All it takes is to change the law to mandate water flow and salmon habitat.
That will never happen. The salmon will never run this river again and the farmers would lose a valuable resorce used to feed you and everyone else.
Beautiful and so full of rich soil
Californias GREAT central valley.
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Watching this Documentary working next to it thinking of how it would look like if the dam was never built. I grew up swimming in Firebaugh, Kerman, even all the way up to the dam.
It’s not just greed. How can the farmers feed the world without water??
Not our job to feed the world. Let the salmon swim.
Yeah we'll all starve without almond milk, pistachios and cotton that rots in government warehouses.
The old Fresno county seat was Fort Millerton, which is now at the bottom of Millerton lake....
Always fascinates me to learn about dying bodies of water especially since I come from Minnesota where water is practically everywhere it's honestly hard to imagine your childhood river or lake one day nearly vanish while also leaving people's way of life at steak
Excellent quality prodution value on shoot and edit cut. i lived there for 17.5 years and im smarter for viewing this ....i water skied next to the intake for byron pump station .....crazy stuff because i drove over both canals on 580 west as a commuter for that time priod wondering where this was going and back history "pre internet days" ! Nice to watch ..
Rh
That dude, talking about percentages of how to bring back the ecosystem and how to bring back the salmon as if it’s some hard thing just trying to keep his job is all he’s doing
You saw that too! Just his demeanor hands in pockets he doesn't give a damn!
Definition of "restore"? How about starting with a continous flow let alone bringing back the salmon..jeez..
Everyone is tricked into believing that the dams are the problem it’s not most of them have been there over 100 years the salmon problem has only been going on for the past 20 and that’s because of Chinese poaching salmon in international waters off the pacific coast.
when was this filmed? late 90's or early 2,000's anyone have a date for it's airing?
I know that this is going to be an important film.
I worked as an intern at the Bureau of Reclamation and it was amazing how greedy and entitled a lot of the rich farmers where. They would pretend to be poor working class folks but where actually quite rich and would demand water at prices magnitudes lower than what the typical household pays for water.
Yep he who controls the water controls everything else. The water in the southwest is all controlled by crooks at the expense of Americans.
I grew up in Firebaugh...the San Joaquin was a shallow muddy polluted trickle but still supported some wildlife. Hope they can bring it back to a healthy river. California is such a corrupt political shit show..dont know if they will ever figure out how to get out of their own way.
What a great documentary ! I was born in the Valley and my family is here, a lot of them are Dunkards who settled a lot of land in around the Modesto and Ripen area ! Very hot but productive land ! 🙏🏼
Wood Colony...
@ Exactly !!!
Most Excellent Doc. I grew up near the Delta, thank you, conservationists and Farmers for all your hard work in restoring the San Joaquin River and the Salmon Run.
They didn't mention anything about the Native people.
They never do.
Who cares
@@bambinal1437 A mention would be appropriate, but it's understandable they were focused on modern history. Like he says for the river, they "literally disappeared" early on in the occupation, and I'm sure little note was made of it at that time either.
Wonderful films Christopher. As a long time resident and water watcher, I think that you (and Scott and everyone else) show an unbiased and historical perspective of water quality and use in the Central Valley. I thank you for sharing these films that were before today unknown to me. All I am missing is the copyright date.
IMDB gives me 2022, and it's a set of four. Be strong and publish, especially if it your right to do so!
Amazing!
I was in 7th grade in that '97 flood my backyard was under water in mayfair, fresno
The upper river is just a short distance from the divide and the other side of the mountains. It could easily have ended up flowing east, but instead it flows all the way through the Sierras to the valley.
Large ag business with politicians in their pockets getting tax payers to build dams so they can grow almonds and pistachios in the desert of the San Juaquin to ship overseas. Each of those trees on average takes 50 gallons of water per day to yield a good crop. Please stop the madness. I'm ok with ag business and dams, just make the ag business pay for em. You'd quickly find out that growing crops that require so much water in the southern central valley is not economical and would be replaced by crops that require much less water. Just common sense approach is all that is needed. Unfortunately, Ag business is all about profit and nothing of common sense.
Dams aren't really OK. They destroy the ecosystem downstream for starters.
Don't forget about all the water that is used to grow rice for China and feed their army.... makes me sick to my stomach
How long has it been since the navy began distilling water out of the ocean? Restoring the valleys isn’t that complicated. We have plenty of water and power. Doesn’t happen cause pg&e can’t figure out how to charge you for it.
You do realize that when you say "Make the ag business pay for them," you are referring to the consumers of ag businesses
Eat a meal of almonds, then poop them out barely digested. Nutrient values are based on combustion and not digestion.
Somebody I know caught a salmon at Skaggs bridge. He shot it with a bow before he knew what it was, there was no throwing it back but it had a tag on it. I figure that was probably some sort of felony. He said the meat was mushy and terrible. They'll never get salmon to run that river again. Such a colossal waste of taxpayer money.
I use to go fishing to san Joaquin river near Patterson near the interstate 5 never caught no fish salmon do inhabit the river
At thirty one minute mark, I have to ask if the corn is a GMO corn? 🌽 water rights is a four letter word to some. Such a shame that the SJ. River has been stripped of its own self.
A most informative documentary you wrote and directed. Thank you!!
That's just crazy how they're stealing water instead of just opening that dam and what's really crazy is that we all know it and aren't doing anything about it.
Ol Walt hasn't missed any meals
I've subscribed to your channel because I spent much of my life on the San Joaquin.
Documentary is just starting and I'll comment at the end
Atmospheric water harvesting is the future
Think airplane wing vortex captured on the ground. The water on glass outside when you put ice in it amplified
Central Valley is the last freedom and must be first again.
Missions on the coastal range. COLONized Gold diggers in the Sierras. Central Valley in the middle. Last freedom or and first again or nothing
Dos Palos CA
I work for a government agency which was involved with invasive aquatic weeds in the river. I have been through all of the parts of the river, by boat, shown in this video. Unfortunately several parts of the river are being over grown by invasive weeds such as Water Hyacinth, Frog Bit, also know as Sponge Plant and Yellow Primrose. Little or nothing has been done about these weeds and in some places such as where the river flows under Highway 99, and much of the river north of the Mendota Dam are in danger of being completely clogged by aquatic weeds.
I am thinking that will be expensive to remediate.
Putting on show releasing tore up salmon way past spawning time. The one they put in almost bellied up on release. Six figure bureaucrats. What a joke.
They know how to orchestrate a circus don’t they! Humans worst characteristic is being so naive to others!
Hey i got this purple turd for sale!
Yeah but it’s a turd?
Yeah but it’s purple!
Il take two!!
Have a great day!
The salmon will not fare well below Friant. I know that. However, the river will regain habitat if allowed.
THIS IS QUITE INTERESTING TO ME AS I HAVE EATEN MUCH CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES PRODUCE!
AS AN FARM BOY , I KNOW WHAT AGRICULTURE IS!
I HAVE ALSO GREATLY BENEFITED FROM THE SAN JOANQUINE VALLEY, AS AN SANTA FE RR EMPLOYEE AT ARGENTINE SHOPS, ALONG THE GREAT TRANSCON ROUTE EASTBOUND TOWARDS CHICAGO!
THIS WAS AND IS AN PRIME ROUTE FOR THE
CALIFORNIA PRODUCE, MOVED IN MILLIONS OF
CARS, CONTAINERS, AND TRAILERS!
AS AN KANSAS RAILROADER, EVEN I HAVE BENEFITED FROM SAN JOAQUIN WATER!!
KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!!
I hope that one day we can bring it back to its original beauty. Restore the salmon habitat. They were here millions of years before us. That’s just disgusting. Why is money more important than native species? We have it so backwards. What’s more important in the long run, restoration, or consumerism?
Do you like to eat? Flooding? There’s a Happy medium . Look at the Columbia but you’re thinking is pie in the sky
When was this filmed? At 11:50 Bud says he was born in 1921. He's definitely not over 100 years old in this film.
I'm guessing 2000-2005?
I am guessing some vintage film was used to produce this piece. Some clips looks like analog video tape, other looks like film.
Filmed in 2002 he died in 2012 at the age of 90
There’s a new leviathan on the block and benevolent one at that
When did you make this documentary?
Makes no sense to destroy a river, a lake and a huge fishery so farmers can have the largest agricultural area in the entire world, when there should have been a compromise and farmers settle for simply a large agricultural area.
If you like to eat, it makes sense.
@@Sshooter444That's such a lazy and overused argument. Most of the unsustainable crops grown here are luxury goods and they'll rip them out for something else if it's more profitable.
Bring the salmon back
Its ridiculous that a fish ladder wasnt installed.😢
310 feet tall? More like an elevator.
Take out Friant dam, its working on the Klamath
That's not a consideration. And rightly so.
Dumb...
@@modestoca25 they said the same before the Klamath river was re-wilded
The dams weren’t the problem on the Klamath it’s the Chinese poaching the salmon in international waters off the pacific coast they net everything
@ that may be part of the problem but the dams stop spawning
That IS a good story. Orphan boy from the Midwest comes to the San Joaquin Valley, and finds peace for his soul and salmon for his dinner plate. He fights to protect the salmon and the way of life that has given him peace, but the Supreme Court throws out the case on a technicality, The man dies broken in spirit. And the last salmon run was in 1946. I'm seeing Eddie Redmayne starring as the orphan. (But the epilogue is...California wouldn't be the California it is today, 5th largest economy in the world, etc etc, if the hard decision had not been made to divert the water, which had the unfortunate side effect of eradicating the salmon.)
You can argue that California was better off when there was 10 million of us instead of 60 million (or whatever). But my parents came from Kansas and North Dakota to LA in the 1930s, and, in a way, I wouldn't have been born if they had protected the salmon and the State population had held at it's pre-Depression level.
Who asked for us to be the 5th largest economy? How many more rivers and fish will die so we can be the 4th or 3rd ...? Our appetite to expand/grow is endless. At some point, gotta step back and ask are we OK with being 10th largest but have every river flowing again? Oughtta be illegal to dam a river and consume every drop of it.
And it was illegally diverted
Didn't they just recently take out 3 damns and the salmon came back?
That was in north california not central. California is big state
The dams are not the problem with the salmon it’s the Chinese that hang off the coast in international waters and net all the salmon that’s why we don’t have the salmon we used to it’s not just them either it’s the Russians and Japanese that do the same .
@@vaquero7072and the dams prevent the spawning dude…
@vaquero7072 the spawning was past the damn. Salmon can swim up river if there's a concrete dam in the way.
They ruined the river with the dams...
But you get to eat.
@@karlklein2966 Eat more fish...90% of the crops are grown for other parts of the world...how many Almonds can you eat?
Is it full of homeless now days?
closer to towns it is
The dems in SF dangle $ome fruit so a lot go there.
Is there full of Homelessness in the San Joaquin? The answer is no.
I don't get the point of this video at all, this is not a tear jerker story, it's a story of unbelievable greed, nowhere in this story did i hear a mandate by government that the san Joaquin valley was earmarked to feed the world, just greedy farmers destroying an entire pristine environment to fill their pockets and screw every reason why it should not be done and then after the deed lamenting the loss, while as all this happened it had to happen with much further destruction and then the entire deed is done in modern times, kind of stupid to hear people lament what they destroyed. it's not just silly it's crazy, how many acres of everything grown in this valley did the government hold a gun to the head of every farmer???? And no way for the masses to get a ripe fresh piece of fruit before it is flash frozen and shipped.
Then quit your job, sell everything you own, buy no food from the grocery store, throw your phone away and walk away into the wilderness. You're as greedy as they were maybe worse, we all are you gherkkin, even going into the wilderness takes a toll. Get over it.
This river runs by my little village in the my little section alone it has claimed the over 100 lives the past 10 years to be honest maybe even more that river is dangerous
Hmm have drip water system for farming like Israel does! You don't need to flood fields with water! Plus Israel recycles 90% of their waste water for farming. Plus we could have Screens to catch do/condensation & have it drip down on the fields as they do in Southern Africa in Namibia.
I have friends in Yuba and they all drip. I will say that an old Indian man there told me that the correlation between flooding and rainfall was real and when they started drip... rain slowed. I dunno if its real or not but its really sad seeing our once amazing fruit harvest be nuts olives and low hand picked glory going away.
You do with orchard trees, plus doing that helps replenish the depleted groundwater. California is not Israel, they rely on desalination plants far more than we do
@@modestoca25 Hmm they get a lot of water from the Jordon river! Plus we could use water do Trapping screens as used In Southern Africa that drips the water caught out of the air & drips it down to the ground
@johncraig7823 fog catchers only work in a few regions of the world like Chile/Peru or SF or maybe some deserts in Angola...They do not get a lot from the Jordan river because they need the water to maintain the Dead Sea levels or dust will pick up and people will inhale it like happens with the Salton Sea and the Salt Lake in Utah.
That's not true example in the winter time we have the valley fog & sometimes condensation like we get on our cars in the early morning.
So, create a spawning ground somewhere. Problem solved!! No need to nominate me for a Nobel Award or anything…