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...well documented. In 1999, for example, when a deconstruction crew took a wrecking ball to the Edwards Dam on Maine's Kennebec River, the results stunned even those who had lobbied for the dam's removal. Important fish species that used to swim from the ocean to spawn upstream--Atlantic salmon, alewives, sturgeon and shad--didn't just come back, marvels Pete Didisheim, advocacy director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, "they surged back." The next year, almost a million alewives were massing in the river. Fish are also rebounding in Virginia's Rappahannock River after the U.S. Army...
...remote villages. After the peasants returned home from the Manwan Dam, police called a meeting. "They told us we'll bear responsibility if anybody talks about what was seen," says a villager. "Now we know the real situation, but there's nothing we can do." A few miles upstream, workers for the China Huadian Corp. are drilling 500-ft.-deep holes as part of the proposed dam's geological test. The government has not divulged its plans. And the party has ordered newspapers to stop reporting on debates over dam construction. But opposition to dams has become the emblem...
...Upstream Battle Norway and Chile launched a challenge to E.U. import restrictions on farmed salmon at the World Trade Organization. Brussels triggered the measures after British and Irish farmers complained rivals were selling the fish below cost price...
...water on the other side and jumping into them one by one. Adrenaline flows as fast as the current, and we eat lunch ravenously atop a huge boulder onto which we've dragged the rafts, its surface so uneven we edge warily around them. At the rock's upstream end, where the water races furiously under the boulder, a river guide was once sucked under and drowned. That night the river booms through my dreams. We're through. Early the next day we're off again, stiff but elated. Wet socks, dirt in our cups of tea, even the plastic...
...flat stretches for the next two days between sharp limestone banks where snakes lie warming in the sun. Finally, we swim into the Gordon, where the two rivers meet; a tradition, our guides assure us, though a painful one, for the Gordon, its waters released from a huge dam upstream, is even icier than the Franklin. The Gordon is flat and featureless in comparison, and by the time we reach the jetty where we're to be picked up by a yacht the next day, we're already missing the Franklin's language of fury and flow. Hot showers...