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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 306: The Lower Four, Snake River Dams and Salmon Passage

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Cal talks with Eric Crawford, Trout Unlimited's Director for the Lower Snake River Campaign. We talk breaching of the four lower Snake River dams, invasive fish passage, what success would mean in numbers, treaty rights, and what it would actually take, hydropower replacement, barge replacement, downstream irrigators, and so much more.

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0:00.0

Meat Eater Radio Live is the newest addition to the Mead Eater Podcast feed.

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Every Thursday at 11 a.m. mountain time, we'll be going live from Mead Eater HQ on the

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Mead Eater Podcast network YouTube channel.

0:13.0

This one hour variety show will feature call in guess, segments,

0:18.0

and live feedback from the meat eater audience.

0:21.0

Then on Friday morning, the episode will be available in audio form on the

0:25.6

Mead Eater podcast feed. So come hang with me, Steve, Yani, Cal and the rest of the

0:31.8

Mead Eater crew every Thursday at 11 a.m. Mountain time on the

0:36.0

Mead Eater Podcast Network YouTube channel and remember it's live so anything can happen.

0:41.7

Does that mean I can finally do my segment about animal sex?

0:45.0

Well, almost anything. From Meat Eater's World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cal's Week in Review with Ryan Calanne. Here's Cal.

1:07.0

What is happening? Are you, you know, Cal the wild, Cal can review fans as promised I have my friend Eric Crawford

1:18.5

of Trout Unlimited on the on the horn with us to go through this incredibly huge diverse topic of what right now is a question a proposal of how and why removal of the four

1:40.7

Snake lower Snake River dams would make sense and why and in kind of like the

1:47.3

how we could get those things out of there and account for the things that we

1:52.4

talked about in the last podcast, which would be,

1:55.0

we want to have healthy outgoing salmon and steelhead and healthy incoming salmon and steelhead.

2:06.0

So returning fisheries to a healthier state,

2:11.0

we want to figure out the big question mark of those are hydroelectric dams,

2:17.2

they're creating power. How do we replace that power.

2:26.4

Shipping component, which there's a port, one of, I think our furthest inland port,

2:29.4

465 miles from the ocean.

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