Alex: Maybe not on as grand a scale as Keith’s trickle experienced, but there needs to be some kind of legislation (maybe an amendment to the FPA), limitinging dam operators’ environmental impacts on our watersheds.

The FERC relicensing process is typically the best time to better regulate flows (for power-generating dams), though it only happens once every 50 years. We’re seeing a spate of them right now, and the results are generally better for fish (not always for fishermen).

KBarton10: That’s how they get away with it – toxic little feeder streams that once supported thousands of Pacific Salmon and Steelhead.

What’s startling is how quickly the salmon and steelies come back – if given half a chance. Of course, eradicate the runs entirely and the “comeback” will take much, much longer…

Michael: Will Brownliners Unlimited clean up the water, possibly running off the fish who thrive in toxic waste, or develop a policy of stasis?

And what will happen to the brownliners once their shopping carts and rusting cars are removed – and they’re deprived of badly needed cover from stray (and aimed) gunfire? This requires care.

Will Brownliners Unlimited clean up the water, possibly running off the fish who thrive in toxic waste, or develop a policy of stasis?

Most will see only a battered Pikeminnow, I see the reason why the California Salmon are nearly extinct.

*there are probably a few, but run of the river flows are far from the norm.