AltWeeklies Wire
What's all the Dam Fuss? The Army Corps Plays with Willamette's Water Flowsnew
The Army Corps of Engineers teaming up with The Nature Conservancy to change the way the river flows as part of their “Sustainable Rivers Project." The alliance will experiment with the way the Corps manages flows of water from the dams to see if it might alter the future for the fish and the river’s ecosystem. With TNC’s reputation for bowing to big business and the Corps’ bedraggled renown for bad projects like the “monumental negligence” that led to the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it’s hard not to look at that particular pairing without some skepticism. But can the unlikely pairing improve the river, or is the Sustainable Rivers Project a greenwash scheme to make dammed rivers look better?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-03-2009 |
Environment
Rafting a River to Save it in Tibetnew
American whitewater rafters team up with Chinese businessmen and Tibetans to bring the sport of rafting to China and save the Salween River from damming.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-09-2008 |
Recreation
Troubled Waters: The Klamath River Messnew
The Klamath River of Oregon and California is an object lesson in what can go wrong when people start tinkering with natural ecosystems, and a paradigm of what's wrong with the way rivers have been managed in the West.
The Source Weekly |
H. Bruce Miller |
10-09-2007 |
Environment
Pulling the Plug on Snake River Dams
If four dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington State were removed to help salmon, would the power grid even notice?
The Inlander |
Kevin Taylor |
03-08-2007 |
Environment
Environmentalists Try to Free Fish Trapped in Reservoirsnew
Getting home is an uphill swim for the East Bay's steelhead trout, even without San Francisco's water agency and George W. Bush teamed up against them.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
12-12-2005 |
Environment
