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Voices from the White Salmon River: Daniel Dancer
October 20, 2011 | Dams & Dam Removal, Restoring Rivers
Amy Souers Kober
Senior Director of Communications
Daniel Dancer, White Salmon River Activist
The removal of Condit Dam on Washington's White Salmon River begins on October 26.
The effort to restore the river and its salmon has taken decades. In this guest post, local advocate Daniel Dancer remembers the very beginning of the dam removal effort.
For me it began in 1990 when I moved from Kansas to the Columbia Gorge -- to the cliff confluence of the White Salmon and the Columbia on the Skamania side.
I took a long recon walk in my first days there and ended up at the dam and watched salmon jumping up against it. It was a sight that made me sick to see.
Then, a few years later, when I was vice president of Columbia Gorge Audubon…we heard the dam was coming up for relicensing. It became my personal, number one environmental issue to see that it was removed.
Over the years, Daniel has promoted the White Salmon River restoration effort through his Art for the Sky projects. Check out the video for the “breach” of Condit Dam – the real thing is happening in just a couple weeks!
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Comments List
Submitted by roseanne gallagher at: October 26, 2011
THANK YOU DAN FOR SAVING AND RESTORING THE ENVIRONMENT. I LOVE SALMON. YOU ARE AN AMERICAN HERO.
Submitted by KC Wlaker at: October 26, 2011
Demolitioning the dam is great for the fish. Sad for me though. I spent my childhood playing in NW Lake on hot summer days.
Submitted by David Bean at: October 26, 2011
Happy Free the White Salmon Day, Daniel. Good patient work. Your fellow wild salmon man, David Bean of the Wild Salmon Nation. ...... May the wild salmon feed the trees and all being of the forest, including us, as they have done for millennia. And may our appetites come into scale.
Submitted by RAY BINNER at: October 20, 2011
THANK YOU DAN FOR TAKING THE TIME AND EFFORT TO HELPING OUR SALMON AND PROTECTING OUR CLEAN DRINKING WATER...