CalTrout’s Dr. Sandra Jacobson explains what’s involved in the design stage of the I-5 fish passage in San Juan Capistrano to a group of donors on Sept. 21. Efforts to remove barriers to the endangered Southern California Steelhead are coming to fruition, invigorated by the spotlight on removal of the obsolete Rindge Dam in Malibu, which has blocked steelhead passage from Malibu Lagoon to the Santa Monica Mountains for the past 80 years. (Credit: Jim Burns)
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Obsolete structures should be removed, and I’m glad the precedents have already been set. We know dam removal benefits the ecosystem and it’s surprising how quickly nature embraces the return to “normal”, as normal as that can be in So-Cal with it’s millions.
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Obsolete structures should be removed, and I’m glad the precedents have already been set. We know dam removal benefits the ecosystem and it’s surprising how quickly nature embraces the return to “normal”, as normal as that can be in So-Cal with it’s millions.