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Some animals win, some lose when the Potter Valley Project dams come down
FOR 104 YEARS, the rainbow trout in the cold tributaries above Scott Dam have carried a secret they could not use. Pearse and Kannry’s genetic work, summarized in Friends of the Eel River’s 2025 comments to the state water board, shows the resident fish still hold much of the code for a sea-run life: the chemistry […] The post Some animals win, some lose when the Potter Valley Project dams come down appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Some animals win, some lose when the Potter Valley Project dams come down, FOR 104 YEARS, the rainbow trout in the cold tributaries above Scott Dam have carried a secret they could not use. Pearse and Kannry’s genetic work, summarized in Friends of the Eel River’s 2025 comments to the state water board, shows the resident fish still hold much of the code for a sea-run life: the chemistry […] The post Some animals win, some lose when the Potter Valley Project dams come down appeared first on Local News Matters .
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