02-06-2017, 11:12 PM
Before the Crooked, the Deschutes, or the John Day were damed, they were all poorly producing rivers as the summer temps were too high. You follow the river long enough down past the dam, they are really poor salmonoid rivers - because they become to warm so fast in the summer.
I found the video very disingenuous to claim that for "thousands of years the Deschutes river ran cold . . ." Hogwash. For thousands of years it ran cold in the winter. Since dams were built, it ran colder than natural all through the summer, and had much more consistent temps to have year-round salmonids.
I also find it disingenuous to omit the reasons the project was put in place - specifically to restore warmer temps to restore native fish. Kinda a big fact to be glossing over.
Man changed that river from it's natural state it had been in "for thousands of years". Apparently someone thought it important to put natives above rainbows, and change it back towards how it was before we put dams in. I don't like it, but tell the real story, not some tear jerker that is factually incorrect and omits key facts.
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I found the video very disingenuous to claim that for "thousands of years the Deschutes river ran cold . . ." Hogwash. For thousands of years it ran cold in the winter. Since dams were built, it ran colder than natural all through the summer, and had much more consistent temps to have year-round salmonids.
I also find it disingenuous to omit the reasons the project was put in place - specifically to restore warmer temps to restore native fish. Kinda a big fact to be glossing over.
Man changed that river from it's natural state it had been in "for thousands of years". Apparently someone thought it important to put natives above rainbows, and change it back towards how it was before we put dams in. I don't like it, but tell the real story, not some tear jerker that is factually incorrect and omits key facts.
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