Friends of the White Salmon River

The following video utilizes some materials from Friends of the White Salmon River archive. Enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/andymaser/yearoftheriver-episode2

The Mount Adams in a Warming Climate Conference held at Trout Lake School was a success and you can read about it here.

With a free flowing White Salmon River restored, salmon and steelhead will finally be returning after a century absence. Ironically, Klickitat County has imperiled this success with an ill-conceived plan to rezone hundreds of acres along the river, including land along the best salmon and steelhead habitat on the main-stem. The County’s vision – sprawling residential development of up to 10 times the current densities.

The proposal would degrade water quality and quantity and spoil the investment we are making to restore wild salmon runs on this Wild & Scenic River. The County’s plan would also actively promote the conversion of prime farm and forest lands and priority wildlife habitats. The County’s plan would harm both public and private property rights.

http://vimeo.com/31269374

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/10/with_a_boom_and_a_flash_of_lig.html 

http://youtu.be/e2ve4OiVc3U

http://youtu.be/jCLI3Bgr-7Q

A couple of great videos:

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/environment-news/us-condit-dam-breach-vin.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Aey1-7k6k&feature=channel_video_title

These photos were provided by Jurgen Hess of the Wet Planet party and dam site.

The Columbian

YouTube.com

OregonLive.com has coverage of the blast.

Condit dam is scheduled to be breached on October 26, 2011 sometime after 11:00 AM. PacifiCorp will have live streaming of the breach:

http://www.pacificorp.com/es/hydro/hl/condit.html#