Undamming the Elwha, the documentary

For those that don’t know, the river was opened for native fishing for the first time in many years. The numbers are steadily growing and there is reason to be optimistic.

So much good done here. 🙏🏻

I hiked 35 miles up the elwa river valley with my brother, my cousins and my uncle a few years back. After the dams were removed. It was beautiful

Thank You to all the generations of tribe members for fighting for so long to bring the dams down.

It’s 2019. I would love to see an update of how the river repaired itself.

a documentary about a "undamming" and only a few seconds of the actual process

These doccos on dam removals in America, (there's quite a few of them), are some of the best viewing on youtube. Very nice to see the indigenous peeps recall old stories, the amaaaaazing fish and beautiful rivers restored. Thank you for posting <3 Well done to everyone involved. 8-)

love the people love the ones who are lead by God and connected to nature and have great wisdom--a rare thing now of days. lots talk about global warming while failing to understand that every foot of black pavement, parking lot, streets etc. are causing the planet to heat up and taking the trees and plant life is starving our enviroment of needed oxygen and other important gases for our healthy living.Thanks for this great video.

Nice upload, thanks...

That was a beautiful documentary.

Beautiful clean water. I live on the Tennessee River in north Alabama. Our dams are essential for our area for electricity and flood control. Even before the dams, the Tennessee was muddy and dangerous. We are blessed to have our system, but my grandma said it was beautiful before the dams.

Great video😊

In the early 1990s we developed the idea to use dehydrated "bricks" of fish to substitute for the nutrition missing due to the lack of salmon in rivers. Hopefully that idea is being used here to greatly accelerate the health of the habitat and salmon runs. It is very heart warming to realize our work may affect so many streams like this.

a very interesting report....

@drinny26 I hope you receive this well. In 2005 I spent a month at a camp building cabins in northern Vancouver Island as an "adult" of 25. The owner of the camp was a man that was about to retire from a life in forestry and conservation in the Canadian government. Over the time I was there he explained their forestry departments philosophy on "scatterplot" forestry and also on what the Canadian government's philosophy of the nitrogen cycle was. The nutrients the salmon deliver to the upper regions of the ecosystem are not replaceable. They come from fish or no where else except some birds that might feed on them and carry their fasces higher up. Salmon that find the rivers as ladders are the only ecological ladder to fulfilling the life cycles. I wonder if there is some truth in there.

Perfect video！

Awesome !

So good!

This is a beautiful story

Thank you for this! We became aware of the Undamming of the Elwa when we watched the Next Best West documentary....