Although I am an Easterner by birth and childhood (New York City and its Long Island suburbs) I "learned my water" in the arid West (AZ, NV, NM) for the last 16 years in the wet Pacific Northwest (OR and northern CA). When someone mentions taking out dams to 'free' spawning fish (salmon) I don't think of rivers like the Peconic, Penobscot and fish like herring and Atlantic salmon. And European streams - really?
So I have enjoyed our recent issue of Water Resources IMPACT that just hit the streets. Its theme is: 'Dams: Past, Present and Future' guest-edited by Lisa Beutler. The articles by Francisco Campos-López and Pao Fernández Garrido (Europe) and George Jackman (New York) exposed me to some new territory. But I missed the last article by John Waldman of Queens College of the City University of New York in NYC.
Here is a PDF of his article, 'Restoring Retired Rivers':
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Professor Waldman also authored the book, Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers And Their Great Fish Migrations.
Enjoy!
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