#fishway

.07 mile walking trail with beautiful river and mountain views at Granite Falls Washington

Some good news out of Rhode Island (specifically the Omega Pond dam)--a fish ladder was finally installed!  River herring, and other diadromous species, could not pass the dam for over a century.

“For people like Gonsalves and Paul Bettencourt, 74, who for 50 years had worked to restore what the Industrial Revolution had destroyed — each spring manually lifting the returning herring above the 10-foot dam and in earlier years clandestinely reseeding the river with herring caught elsewhere — it was an emotional achievement. “