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cover photo: Klamath River native species killed by KRRC’s sediment management. Photos courtesy Walt Moody
Dam removal comes with a BIG price when done wrong!
The big question that goes to the credibility of Mark Bransom and Klamath River Renewal Corporation (‘KRRC’) is this:
Were native species in the Klamath River killed by the sediment management and water released from the Klamath Dams?
During numerous recent public presentations, Mark Bransom categorically denied that native species in…
William E. Simpson II is an ethologist living among and studying free-roaming native species American wild horses. William is the award-winning producer of the micro-documentary film 'Wild Horses'. He is the author of a new Study about the behavioral ecology of wild horses, two published books and more than 150 published articles on subjects related to wild horses, wildlife, wildfire, and public land (forest) management. He has appeared on NBC NEWS, ABC NEWS, CBS NEWS, theDoveTV and has been a guest on numerous talk radio shows including the Lars Larson Show, the Bill Meyer Show, NPR Jefferson Public Radio and NPR National Radio.
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William there were Sturgeon in Copco Lake as per CDFW. This was reported when CDFW did a fish survey of Copco Lake. They told us they were 6 to 8 feet in length. After the survey we could not kill chubs they had to be returned to the river. Has the Sturgeon bodies been seen yet?
rumors yes, photographs have yet to surface. The secondhand information will not fly
William Simpson,
Why must we demand that the sediments be removed? Why not mycoremediation or phytoremediation? on another note your vitriol directed at the KRRC is misplaced. Warren Buffett was the one who declined to renew the operating permits-said it didn’t pencil out- blame him hell blame the federal government for requiring the dams be brought up to spec. Enviromentalism did not bring this down on us capitalism did
I agree with everything you have said.