Free the Snake: Restoring America’s Greatest Salmon River

Name: Free the Snake: Restoring America’s Greatest Salmon River in The New Localism
Uploaded: 2015-07-06T23:52:38-04:00
Duration: 7 min 30 s
Channel: Patagonia
Description: Snake River Salmon have been trucked, put on barges, diverted up fish ladders — all in the hope that enough would bypass the four dams standing in their way…

from The Lower Snake River, Southeastern Washington State | Spotlight

Snake River Salmon have been trucked, put on barges, diverted up fish ladders — all in the hope that enough would bypass the four dams standing in their way to reach their historic habitat, and ensure their future existence.. But it’s not working. The time has come to breach the dams and reconnect wild salmon to this important watershed. Learn more:patagonia.com/us/the-new-localism/DamNation

Published 7 years ago

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14 Comments

Tedi Petrova 7 years ago

Ropotamo river vimeo.com/77162447

Maura Kormos 7 years ago

Very Well done!. I've wanted to travel the Snake Rive VIA Train get to dip my soul in the waters of this beautiful place in my ignorance I had NO idea about the Damn Dams. Blessed Be, Let the River Run Free.

Votiv Earth 7 years ago

That was beautiful and inspiring. We enjoyed it so much and want to spread the word, so we have featured it as our Film of the Day today on votivearth.com and gave you full credit. Free the Snake!

Cindy Wilson 7 years ago

Wish more people knew about this and cared as much as others do out here in the US. I live in Florida and it makes me sad just as it does with the way the natural flow of water through the swamp land here is disrupted.

God Bless you for sharing!!

Cindy in Florida

Cristina Dinamarca 7 years ago

Wow well done denouncing and informing the beauty os it all ans being taken by useless so call ingineering developments who destroy. Rathen than support the nature of things and our food. Supply. Blessed be the ones who identify the error and correct it.

Aliki 7 years ago

Wow well done, I wish more people cared, makes me sad as it does to see, is not match done for the wild ed in general

Faye Girdany 7 years ago

Agreed with many of the comments posted and spoken. Activists like these are crucial to our sustainable planet. This was well done to inform people like me that who are not aware of the really simple fixes to a huge problem. The beauty is amazing. FREE THE SNAKE...

Robert Wilde 7 years ago

A great project.

But I don't see a link to the petition so I can sign it.

nordic norm 7 years ago

Petition link here: change.org/p/barack-obama-crack-down-on-deadbeat-dams

Major Kong aka Simon O'Riordan 7 years ago

Patagonia isn't far enough. Try moving to another planet.

robert 7 years ago

why, why? :-(

Homegrown Swedes 7 years ago

Great.

badwabbit 7 years ago

Very Beautiful, Patagonia, Please put a focus on the Copper Mine project in Alaska. They keep wanting to put in a Gold Mine, it would Destroy all Salmon Runs from Alaska. That's thousands of jobs all throughout the world that would be lost, not to mention the food source. It is a very tenuous position, due to the corporatization of America, I fear the battle will be lost. I even heard something about the EPA revising their study, or doing another one. The bottom line is, there's more gold there than in any known mine. And people want it, rich people want it. And, like in British Columbia, it's an ongoing battle, they nip away at year by year, until they finally get their way. Here's a link, also, Paul Newman is an Advocate for the Copper River, so he maybe someone you could contact. He did a short spot advocating for keeping the mining company out in 2013 I believe.

livescience.com/37645-save-alaska-salmon.html