I was too young to remember the buffler slaughter...but observe the native stewards of the land and their eagerness to remove the Irongate hydro dam and 4 others on the Klamath River. Built in 1908, the hatchery there maintained salmon runs for a hundred years, through the placer gold mining era from 1850 to 1941 when the river ran brown with mud. Flood control, power generation and so on. The return runs were so plentiful, commercial fishing was allowed in the 40's and 50's. OK, why are the Indian tribes hot to do this....follow the money every single time...written into the dam removal projects are the requirement for dozens of tribal members to serve at insanely high wages as cultural advisors, biologists (with no college degree of any kind), site monitors etc.The low summer flows when the dams are gone will kill the salmon by disease from high water temps, the silt load from the reservoirs in winter will suffocate the egg nests. The noble red man my arse.
