Aquatic Connectivity- Benefitting Streams and Communities

April 16th 2013

Dam removal improves river, saves community festival

The failure of a dam in a northern Michigan river led to an innovative solution that restored fish passage in an important Lake Huron tributary and saved a popular community festival in the process. Replacing the Chesaning Dam with a … Continue reading

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September 11th 2012

Tribal elder shares unique perspective of dam project

There are many ways to describe the benefits of dam removal: Yanking obsolete dams provides fish passage, restores natural flow conditions and creates new fish and wildlife habitat. And then there are the kinds of benefits described by Hank Bailey Odawa, a … Continue reading

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August 30th 2012

Brown Bridge Dam Removal

Guest blog post from Amy Beyer, Director of the Conservation Resource Alliance, who will be presenting at the upcoming Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Restoration Conference. We’re really excited to have a workshop on aquatic connectivity at the Cleveland conference in … Continue reading

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