“Three days after Iron Gate Dam was removed and the water reconnected itself, salmon passed there. Three days. In anticipation of dam removal for 20 years, the brightest minds, the best scientists in the world studied how quickly the Klamath salmon would return. Five years, 10 years, 20 years. … The leader salmon just jammed past where the former Iron Gate Dam was and went into good spawning territory behind it.”

…really know because they haven't been able to access that habitat in almost 100 years. You know, and salmon now, you know, they may have that same salmon may have it deep in their DNA where they used to spawn, but they haven't been able to access it. So, you know, their nature is to go where they were born. So they thought, oh, they'll just stop and go where they were born. No, three days later, the leader salmon just jammed past where the former Iron Gate Dam was and went into good spawning territory behind it. And then after. After that, that first year, there were about 7,000 salmon that went up into that historical spawning territory and spawned. And then what's cool is that last year, oh, and I said the year wrong, it was 2024 when the dams came out and that they did the first ascent. So check that. Okay. But so that first year in 2024, there were 7,000 salmon that went past the former dam sites.…