Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Dam Removal Petition Delivered to White House
Last year, the award-winning film DamNation
swept through the river-running community, asking us to rethink the
utility of over 40,000 aging dams across the U.S. Meanwhile, in August
2014, the final blasts took down the last portion of the 210-foot Glines
Canyon Dam on Washington’s Elwha River, completing the largest dam removal project in American history. Within weeks, Chinook salmon were spotted above the former dam site. The successful removal of the Elwha dams was a testament to DamNation‘s
thesis: if you free them, rivers will heal. Now the filmmakers have
taken the next step, joining activists and employees of Patagonia to
deliver a 70,000-signature petition to President Obama and his top
environmental advisers, including Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell. The petition
asked the White House to remove obsolete dams, starting with four dams
on the lower Snake River, which are particularly harmful to salmon
populations. Learn more about DamNation‘s trip to Washington D.C. by watching the video above, or visit their website. Source
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