Klamath dam removal aims to return salmon to waters they could not reach for decades
“Without dams on the Klamath, salmon will have access to nearly 650 kilometres of river and tributaries fed by glaciers on Mount Shasta.” #indigenous#yurok#hoopa
Last year, an area around twice the size of Luxembourg was burnt in the EU.
It was the fourth worst year since 2000 regarding areas affected by wildfires. This is also due to the single largest fire to occur in Europe since the 1980s.
We call for greater prevention and preparedness via:
🔹 nature-based solutions like vegetation management
🔸 wildfire early warning systems
🔹 the efficient firefighting means that the #EUCivilProtection Mechanism offers.
"For more than 13,000 years...hundreds of...tribes 👉across...the world used small intentional burns to renew local food, medicinal and cultural resources, create habitat for animals, and reduce the risk of larger, more dangerous wild fires."👈
This is excellent news and I hope to see more announcements like this.
“The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League.”
When I hear of the Yurok, I am reminded of Yurok Robert Sprott who was a close friend of Dr. Alfred Kroeber, founder of the anthropology dept at Cal Berkeley. Kroeber’s daughter #UrsulaKLeGuin writes about Sprott in her essay “Indian Uncles”.
For thousands of years, the Klamath River has been a cornerstone of #Yurok culture, providing its people with a bounty of #chinook salmon, #coho salmon & #steelhead trout.
Following the 4 dam removals on the Klamath river, and restoration plan closely. Local tribes collected a phenomenal 19 BILLION local ca native plant seeds from 98 species to revegetate the project. Our local tribes do stuff in a well thought out, big way, reintroduction of endangered species like condors, reintroduction of cultural fire, instrumental in getting the dams removed, + collecting 19 billion native seeds to reveg the project. Continual source of inspiration. #KlamathRiver#DamRemoval#WatershedRestoration#NativePlants #Yurok#Karuk#Hupa#SeedGathering
After 170 years, the store in a small northwestern California town has Indigenous owners. Instead of exploiting the community, the store is now trying hard to serve it.
“after more than 2 decades of persistent efforts, [incl protests, demonstrations, and negotiations], the 4 dams along the CA-OR border have finally started to be dismantled.”
‘“We have so much hope that this river will restore itself,” Bowers Cordalis said. “Dam removal is just the beginning. Dam removal is the end of colonization of this river.”’
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
"We (the #Yurok, specifically, and other #triibes of the #KlamathRiver, inclusively) have that great privilege of being able to fish this river, but along with that great privilege comes an obligation to preserve and protect it..."
We all, collectively and individually, have an obligation to do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, as best we can and on a rapidly ever-improving basis, to preserve and protect the #enironment, our #ecosystems, our #Earth.
How the Yurok Tribe Is Bringing Back the California Condor (undark.org)
The reintroduction of the long-lived, highly social birds has offered insight into the importance of parenting in the species.