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Dam removals are bringing fish back to the US Northeast
Original: Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
Dam removal projects across the northeastern United States are restoring river connectivity and allowing fish species such as river herring to return to historic spawning grounds. Conservation groups are dismantling aging and obsolete barriers one by one, and scientists are recording marked increases in fish populations in reopened waterways. The story is drawing attention as a rare, tangible environmental success, showing how targeted infrastructure removal can deliver measurable ecological recovery.
Why now: People are drawn to a rare good-news environmental story showing concrete conservation results.
northeastern United StatesSmithsonian Magazine
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