Pleasant Hill Dam – US Army Corp of Eng

Let’s just get one thing crystal clear from the get-​go: I hate dams. I hate nearly everything ABOUT dams. They stop the normal flow of rivers. They mess with the normal migration of fish and other wildlife. They are a scourge on the land. Take a look at «A Good Day to Die» by Jim Harrison.
«If I did any good at all it might be to let a few miserable fish swim to that higher, cleaner water where they were surely meant to spawn, as surely anyway as we are meant to die or vote or drink — -out our torpid days.» (He’s on his way to blow up a dam. My kinda guy.)
Sure, they made Pleasant Hill Lake for everyone to enjoy. They now have flood control. Irrigation. And a pretty nice drive, right over the dam. Swell.
What if, instead of the dam, you could put in down at the Black Fork of the Mohican, and work your way up the Clear Fork, through the Hemlock Gorge, past the covered bridge, THROUGH where the dam is now, up past Butler, all the way up? What if the whole damned un-​dammed river teemed with trout? (Yeah, I know. Just like it DID for the previous million or so years.)
Well, I for one would be most pleased.