"Our Two Hands" by BLOODKNOTS

Here's a great upcoming kick starter project that you should consider being a part of.   BloodKnots is throwing their weight into a subject that I hold extremely near and dear.

With regard to steelhead and salmon, don't continue to be a part of the decline.  Saddle up and be part of the recovery

Damnation Review...

DamNation | Trailer from FELT SOUL MEDIA on Vimeo.


Lets just get it out there

This is the best outdoor film I have ever, ever seen.

Last night Damnation by Felt Soul Media played to a full house in Spokane and I dont think there's been a film that has stirred my soul in the way that it did

One of my grandfather's helped build Bonneville.   The other, Grand Coulee.  Our family was fully involved in the dam building era.

I hope to be a part of restoring what was lost.

Damnation is beautiful.  It's damn near art (pun intended)  I feel a tipping point coming with this issue, and this is going to be the film to bring the issue to the masses

There are so many things to write about in this film that I need time to unpack my brain and with that, there will be more written here soon about it.

There many dams that shouldn't be taken out at this point.  Electricity, jobs, farming and commerce would be effected in the wrong way

On the other hand, there are thousands of dams that have outlived their lifespan and its our obligation to take them out

The dam removals on the Elwha, White Salmon, Penobscot, are shining examples of given the opportunity, the rivers will heal themselves

If you get the chance to see this film, do it.

James Redden--"Take The Dams Down"

From Save Our Wild Salmon Inland Northwest Director Sam Mace--

"Perhaps more than any other individual in the history of the Pacific Northwest's dam building era, Judge James Redden altered the course of salmon recovery on the Snake and Columbia for the better. From his position as a US District Court Judge in Oregon, Redden has presided over much of the long running legal battle which has pitted fishing groups, tribes and conservationists against the federal government and the entrenched economic interests in the Columbia Basin. With wild salmon populations in the Columbia teetering on the brink of extinction in the 1990's Redden took the case during a time of crisis and the decisions he's made during the course of the last decade, including court mandates for spill during the spring outmigration, increased monitoring and adaptive management, and improved habitat mitigation efforts have led to dramatic improvements in many populations of wild salmon in the Snake and Columbia Basin. Now in his early 80's, Redden stepped down from the case last fall, leaving behind a tremendous legacy of holding the federal government to the highest legal standards with regards to their responsibility to endangered salmon in the Columbia.

Having stepped away from the case, Redden is for the first time making his personal opinions public, and in a recent interview with Idaho public television Redden stated emphatically what many have long known; we need to take the four lower Snake River dams down."

Watch his interview here with Idaho Public Television HERE

Weird, let a river behave like a river and the fish respond.  Classic case of letting nature do it's deal, and look what happens....

Thank goodness Redden was around to force the powers that be to become good stewards of our rivers.  Here's to him, and his judicial legacy he's leaving behind

After the TNT, The Water Flows...

The White Salmon River is running as nature intended.  Thank god!

Think about this, it's the first time in damn near 100 years that the White Salmon runs free and soon in the future, to it's connection with the Columbia.

Give the fish and nature a chance, and it will rebound.  I am terribly excited to be a part of a generation to have a front seat to watch it come back.

Godspeed!