A U.S. agency seeking to restore habitat for endangered fish gave final approval on Thursday to decommission four dams straddling the California-Oregon border, the largest dam removal undertaking in U.S. history.
You may not have heard much about the long fight to remove the Nooksack Dam near Bellingham, Washington, but its detonation this week will prove ecologically and culturally important.
Facing devastating declines in salmon stocks, conservationists in Clayoquot Sound are taking a ground-up approach to watershed restoration decades after forestry and mining have taken their toll.
