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Josh Simmons

Today, the Klamath River is flowing freely for the first time in more than 100 years.

The dams have been removed. The ecosystems are being nurtured. And sovereignty has been restored to the Shasta Indian Nation over another 2800 acres. Good things are happening. Great things are possible. lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/aug/

#SolarPunk #LandBack #Klamath #Environment #California

43 comments
Josh Simmons

@profdc9 ok that image is a delightful throwback 😂

IronCladLou

@josh in a day that was otherwise shit, this is really great news! Anytime a dam is removed I feel happy ❤️

Josh Simmons

@ironcladlou Yesss, same. Progress on big complicated things like this give me hope ❤️

M.S. Bellows, Jr.

@josh As the son of a kid from Happy Camp, I'm ecstatic.

Catherine Schmidt

@josh I hadn’t known about the project. Hopefully more rivers will be freed, more land restored.

Kevin LaRose He/Him

@josh @charvaka I wonder if Celilo Falls will ever come back to life. One can only hope.

Louis Couture :quebec: 🇵🇸🕊️🇮🇱

@josh how will they make up for the lost electricity? I hope it's not gonna be oil

Full Metal Archaeopteryx

@louisrcouture
I don't think any of the dams were hydroelectric
@josh

Art-X

@DelilahTech @louisrcouture @josh
They were for hydroelectric power and were up for a 50-year recertification. Ultimately, with community pressure, Pacific Power decided the dams did not produce enough power to make keeping them in place worth it in the face of environmental harm-mitigation requirements and tribal citizens and their allies demanding recertification be rejected for the good of the river.

chris actually

@josh Im really impressed with the tribe's ability to get native plants in place while the dams were being dismantled. Kept the riff-raff weeds and invasive species out. Good job all around

MoiraEve

@lackattack “riff-raff weeds”😂 I know just what you mean. @josh

Bob Tregilus 🐧 📷

@josh That's wonderful news!!! Free rivers are happy rivers, and healthy too!

n8dly

@josh The #Yurok have done an amazing job here, moving this project forward.

Annietime

@josh WONDERFUL. Just huge gratitude to all who worked and struggled for this! Thank you!🙏🙏🙏

K2

@josh
"The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.:
- Chief Joseph

thepoliticalcat

@josh #LandBack

Let's give the land back to those whose ancestors' bones are buried here, because nobody knows and loves this land like its people do. The least we can do is return it to them and pay rent for the occupation.

delvina ✨

@josh 🥳 🥳 🥳 🦀 🦀 🦀 :party_parrot: :party_parrot: :party_parrot:

Josh

@josh I'm sitting here on a train with my eyes welling up ❤️

Jens Michael B.-Hansen

@josh went to Mt Shasta and the areas around back in 1983. Roads were closed with many meters of snow towards the top,even if it was in May. Marvelous nature. I remember a grotto which we sailed to and climbed a bit.

Love-30

@josh fantastic news! Grateful to the people who made this happen! 🙏🏽 #nature #conservation #river #dams #klamath

MHS_Jenkins

@josh That does my heart good. Thank you for sharing!

LM Little

@josh If only the damn dam building #NDP in #BritishColumbia weren't so captured by the #fossilfuel aka #LNG industry, then the destructive Site C #megadam might not have been built.

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