Thanks to Bernard Yin and his Trout Hugger blog for spotting this National Geographic piece, which could spell big news for fly fishers in our area.
“Patagonia, the Ventura-based outdoor clothing and gear company, is working with Hewlett and other groups to raise the funds needed to take out the dam by 2020. It would be the largest dam removal in California history (eclipsing the recent San Clemente project).”
I only wish Brown Mountain Dam behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were on the list.
See you on the river, Jim Burns
The credit goes to Gary Bulla who posted about this and it caught my eye. It might be neat to one day see a viable steelhead run in the Ventura River eh? Imagine!
Has any progress occurred concerning this damn dam?
The latest, but I don’t see Brown Mountain on any list …
https://therevelator.org/cleveland-forest-dam-removal/