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Ideas to restore salmon runs
This letter is about how dams can affect the lives of salmon. Many dams have been built in the Central Valley, but they keep salmon out of spawning areas, so they can’t reproduce. At New Bullards Bar Dam on the north Yuba River, they are working on a solution. They are planning to truck salmon past the dam.
My first thought was that this is a ridiculous idea, and no one knows if it will even work. However, it is important to do something to help the salmon. Other ideas are removing the dam or building a giant fish ladder. These solutions would be even harder to do.
How can you help? You can write a letter to the agencies that own or operate the dams, and support other solutions that help salmon. You can also use other forms of renewable energy, like solar or wind, to reduce the need for dams to provide electricity.
It is a real challenge for dams and salmon to co-exist, but if we can put a man on the moon, we can figure out how to get salmon up a river.
Andy Tobia
Fourth grade, Korematsu Elementary School, Davis
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