Comment Comment by svnt This is a good decision to remove an unnecessary dam to give Pacific salmon and their ecosystems a chance to recover.0) salmon populations have recently plummeted [0]1) fish ladders don’t work [1]2) even marginally higher river temperatures are problematic for salmon [2] and dams raise temperatures in large sections of the river3) salmon are a keystone species [3][0]https://phys.org/news/2021-10-salmon-decline-impacted-combin...[1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/blocked_migration_fish_ladder...[2] https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/climate/river-temp...[3] https://wildsalmoncenter.org/salmon-a-keystone-species/ parent svnt 4 years ago
0) salmon populations have recently plummeted [0]
1) fish ladders don’t work [1]
2) even marginally higher river temperatures are problematic for salmon [2] and dams raise temperatures in large sections of the river
3) salmon are a keystone species [3]
[0]https://phys.org/news/2021-10-salmon-decline-impacted-combin...
[1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/blocked_migration_fish_ladder...
[2] https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/climate/river-temp...
[3] https://wildsalmoncenter.org/salmon-a-keystone-species/