Ben shoots the Lower Elwha River from the Power House | tr photo
Ben and I must be getting old. There was a fair amount of complaining about knots in our backs and soreness this last month. Maybe we are just getting softer. Living out of a van with Ben has had its highpoints as well as its challenges.
We drove over 4,000 miles and traveled from Colorado to Northern BC, down the Pacific coast from Washington’s Olympic Peninsula to the Lost Coast of California and finally back to Colorado. We checked out a lot of dams and spent time with some amazing characters. There was a lot of silence in the van as we took in the enormity of the story we are attempting to tell and as we wrapped our heads around the subjects from which the story will come.
A month and a day and we are back where we started. Amend is beginning to take shape. We are regrouping and gaining perspective on the story—heading out again in early September for another month long go of it.
Stories to come from the last month on the road. Thank you for staying tuned.
Really looking forward to the new film, sounds like a very compelling story that needs to be told in the artful way that you guys have dialed in. Good luck with the project, if you find yourself winding up the Columbia river through Central WA shooting those dams, give a shout- you guys have whatever support you need here in Leavenworth WA. Good luck.
Red One yes/no?
yes
Excellent!
Yup, Red one… a dream come true—finally.
Here in the midwest, a small city is the ignorant owner of an 83 year old defunct dam that produces nothing but silt and everything else that comes with it.
Wild steelhead and trout are blocked off from the headwaters of this Michigan Stream, and the potential for recreation, improved habitat, and reduced liability just isn’t resonating with the locals in a depressed town that is just trying to keep it together; and nature and environment are understandably low on the agenda.
But then again, there’s this whole “flooding thing” that a handful of homeowners don’t care for too much.
We are trying to get the city to “allow” a consortium of groups to present a proposal to buy the land and restore the river to its original flow and heal itself, but we have a bad case of deaf ears happening. If you ever come this way, we’d be happy to host you. Great steelhead fishing in Southwestern Michigan.
Kenny
dowagiacriverkeepers.blogspot.com
Oh yeah. almost forgot…………(I mention this partly for selfish reasons, but also)……this subject of dam removal has little collections of links, data, research, etc., and I tried to assemble what I could to educate folks locally and in the media……..on all things that are relavent in this issue to dam owners, home owners, anglers, etc. American rivers is an excellent resource for films on the subject..You might browse the “faq” style topics to see if any of it provides good base content for you to work from. Good luck
yes, with a little bit of yes.