I was born in 1945 so you can imagine that many of the dams on California's river were built during my life time.

They seemed to dam the big river right away then proceeded to dam every small stream the entire length of the state.

One hundred years ago California had one of the largest populations of anadromous fish in the world.


In my lifetime they are finally removing some dams and that makes me feel good.


To make a river healthy again you need to remove all dams and have no hatcheries.

I hope we can have a few more wild rivers in California.