Dams
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Devastating impacts the Klamath River dams
Fall-run Chinook salmon fry released for the first time from CDFW
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Construction begins on removal of 4 Klamath River dams
Draining a watershed of nearly 16,000 sq mi, the Klamath is California’s second-largest river
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License surrender order clears the path to remove 4 dams on the Lower Klamath
This clears the last major hurdle necessary to implement the world’s largest river restoration project to date
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The tide has shifted on dams
California grappled with the other side of the problem in 2017 when quickly rising waters nearly caused a failure at Oroville Dam — the tallest in the country — and a public safety disaster.
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1st system detecting fish rushing with water through spillway at federal dams
When the bait fish are out, one will also see cormorants, coots, bufflehead, egrets, gulls and the occasional heron.
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3 Keys to Fishing Wing Dams for Late Summer Bass
On many of our nation’s large, commercial navigable waterways, there is a common piece of structure that can easily become a fish holding magnet…it is a wing dam. When you find a wing dam, identifying its key areas is a must to establishing a pattern that you can replicate up and down the main river channel. Some items to look at include;
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Oroville Dam's 'green spot' raises new worries that the nation's tallest dam could have a breach
California officials are concerned that a large 'green spot' on the Oroville Dam may mean that it is leaking roughly five months after it overflowed due to the spillway failing.
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USDA Announces DamWatch App to Monitor Dams
WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability of DamWatch, a new web-based application that provides real-time monitoring of rainfall, snowmelt, stream flow and seismic events that could pose potential threats to dam safety. (Editor's Note: This could also be of considerable interest to anglers.)