This is a celebration of enormous proportions, The project Klamath. Here in my home state dams on the Elwha river on the Olympic Peninsula were removed just a few years ago. It had an immediate impact and with some help from the local Klallam tribe, native and hatchery fish returned even before restoration was completed.
The project Klamath has proven just how successful it would be. The Salmon! Sacred to the native populations and critical for the health of the forests and waters. Salmon are a main food source for our local southern resident killer whales, the pod that had been hunted for aquariums. After the last of the captured ones died, Tokitae, last year after 53 years in captivity, the pod came back to the South Sound just last month. Each whale pod have their own diets. For instance, the “Biggs pod” eat just about everything, seals, sea lions, porpoises, seabirds, shellfish. They are thriving, unlike our southern residents who need salmon.
Here is the Kelly Show Link which has a great clip of the woman who saw it through! Amy Bowers Cordalis.
And here is the finish line. A 315 mile kayak adventure by the youth of the Yurok Tribe. The story of how it got done is in the link below. I’ve followed this story for a couple of years now. I caught up to it watching the Kelly Show this week when she had Amy on talking about her passion to see it through.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/century-logging-lands-along-californias-100000311.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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