Ecosystem Restoration, Creek Style

Good news for fish, and for me.

Goldridge RCD just asked me to make a film about the dismantling of the Camp Meeker dam in Northern California. Since its construction, it has stopped the natural flow of the creek, thus the flow of the ecosystem there.

Here’s a video I made that may relate to this one, not only in content, but in the style as well.

Click on HQ — the regular quality sucks on this vid.

Through much fortitude, it will soon come down.

Here’s how (from an e-mail):
If this is the first time you are hearing about the project, it has two primary objectives:

1. To eliminate all known fish barriers along the mainstem of Dutch Bill Creek, and
2. To provide the community with a new and hopefully well-utilized pedestrian walkway that spans the creek.

These objectives will be accomplished in the following ways:

1. Remove the instream summer dam below the Post Office;

Retrofit the culvert under Market Street with baffles;
Install a series of boulder weirs downstream of the Market Street culvert; and
Replace an important community connector (footbridge) between Camp Meeker proper and the community recreation site.

Also, check out the work of Derek Jensen. This guy does not mince much, especially when it comes to his thoughts about our illegal responsibilities we have as the crash approaches.