The Nature Conservancy used carefully placed explosives to breach more than 50 year old levees and flood about 2,500 acres. The purpose of this is to restore wetlands in the Klamath Basin. This raw footage taken shows how the lake's water will give way to open area that is suppose to help fish. Particularly two species of fish which are only found in the Klamath basin are protected by the endangered species act, and this is suppose to help revive them. The Lost River and the the Shortnose Sucker once thrived in the 50's, however, as levees were constructed for farmland, there numbers diminished. Check out the video...
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Wonderful. It's about time. The Kalmath area was a wreck because of those levees.
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