For the first time in 112 years, Chinook salmon are swimming freely in the Klamath Basin in Oregon.
On October 16, biologists with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) spotted the fish above the former site of the J.C. Boyle Dam in the Upper Klamath River. The dam was one of four that had blocked the salmon’s migration between the Klamath Basin and the Pacific Ocean. Each of those dams was recently deconstructed in the largest dam removal project in United States history, which has restored the river to its natural, free-flowing state.
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The kids today …
Here’s the link to the article with the proofs.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2024.2370240#d1e5831
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Here’s a good night good story.
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Super cool story - happening all over the PNW.
Fish Passage Restoration Program - King County, Washington.
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I’ll leave you with my moment of joy tonight.
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Wonderful.
Coincidentally, earlier this week during my visit to my previous home in Soller, Mallorca, Spain, I once again danced its wonderful folk dance, called (in Mallorquin) the equivalent of “Everybody Dances This Dance!”, explicitly designed to be easy to dance, and to get seniors and children and experts all going. The song that accompanies it is about the connection of life; that all are born, live, give birth, and then die, but only after teaching the youngsters to dance and sing this dance.
It has a wonderful echo to Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration.
It was wonderful.
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That’s very nice. DH and I took care of a diabetic friend’s dogs when he went in and out of the hospital. (For as long as 79 days.) He couldn’t afford to board them so he probably would have been forced to either give them up or refuse to go to the hospital (he would have died).
When he finally died we adopted the remaining dog. A beloved female English cocker spaniel would not have done well in a dog shelter. She was home when he died and was terribly depressed for weeks afterward. Never say that dogs have no feelings. She eventually recovered.
Wendy
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He looks so much like the dog we had when I was a pre-teen and teen. I am eternally grateful that they chose to domesticate us.
This isn’t really good news but a good suggestion, I hope. If you are having trouble falling asleep here is what I do. I get a audiobook of a book that I have read and loved and is comforting. I put it on my phone and set it to play for 15-30 minutes. I usually fall asleep before it stops, but since I know the story, I can back up the next night to where I drifted off or just go on knowing what I missed.
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The Scottish comedian Janey Godley died today. I didn’t know of her until a few days ago. I am sad about that, but I am so silly happy that she left us with a wealth of memories like this.
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Hannah Frey is one of my favorite science communicators. She and Dara ÓBriain look at a variety of topics in the podcast Curious Cases. This week they looked at the science of rhythm. Here’s the link. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
It’s sometimes said that timing is everything and this week the pair investigate the mystery of rhythm, discovering why some of us might be better at staying in tempo.
From the daily cycle of dawn and dusk to sea tides and circadian clocks, rhythm governs many aspects of our lives, and cognitive psychologist Dr Maria Witek says it makes sense we also place great importance on its presence in music. She specialises in ‘groove’, or the feeling of pleasure associated with moving to a beat – and it’s not just something the dancers among us enjoy; groove has even been used to treat patients with Parkinson’s Disease.
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For the past couple of months I’ve been struggling with a knee injury that has made most of my enjoyable activities impossible but has even made daily living difficult. I had an MRI and I believe in layman’s terms it says, “You were stupid in your youth and now you’re paying for it.” So I’ve been going out in our woods on the flat ridge tops and taking pictures with camera lenses that I don’t usually use. It has made me look at things in different ways. I’d say it was a good thing if it wasn’t so [expletive] painful. Here’s one from yesterday. These are blue berries not blueberries. If you look closely you can see the thorns of the greenbriar.
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This story made me smile today.
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