Sentences with phrase «restore salmon runs»

I have spent my professional life toggling between working for environment and as a teacher, most recently helping to restore salmon runs in rural NW California.

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The removal of two dams on the Elwha River will help restore once - abundant salmon runs.

# 3: Lower Snake River (WA, OR, ID) Threat: Four dams Four dams on the lower Snake River have caused dramatic declines in the Snake River basin's once magnificent salmon runs and have stymied efforts to restore these fish.

The deal is part of a broader effort to restore the river and revive its ailing salmon and steelhead runs and aid fishing, tribal and farming communities.

Before you scroll away, however, consider how a volcano - fertilized North Pacific Ocean phenomenally restored Pacific salmon runs in 2010 - to levels not seen since the early 1930's - and how this restoration squares with conventional wisdom about «iron seeding» being too hazardous to experiment with as a potential geo - engineering method.Following the late August of 2008 Aleutian volcano eruption, which spewed iron - rich ash over the North Pacific Ocean, the cohort of 2009 salmon (which «ran» in British Columbia streams in August of 2010) produced a spawning run much larger than what those same streams hosted 100 years ago.