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The Rhode Island Natural History Survey
presents a free evening event featuring a
documentary, dessert & discussion.
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WPWA
encourages you to join us in attending
"DAMNATION"
Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 7:00pm
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Richmond – Carolina Firehouse
208 Richmond Townhouse Road,
Carolina, RI 02812
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6:00pm
Doors open for dessert & coffee, social hour
7:00pm
Introduction & movie
8:30pm
Discussion How
is dam removal carried out and what does it accomplish
for us here at home in Rhode Island? Led by RINHS
Director David
Gregg,
with local experts Jim Turek, NOAA Restoration
Center, and Chris
Fox,
Executive Director, Wood Pawcatuck Watershed Association.
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 This powerful film explores the change in our
national attitude, from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the
growing awareness that our future is bound in part to the life and
health of our rivers. In a short span of years, dam removal has gone main
stream. Witness, as obsolete dams come down, how rivers bound back to
life, giving salmon and other fish the right, after decades without
access, to return their historical spawning grounds. DamNation’s
majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers
and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in
values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part
of nature.
DamNation shows how far and how quickly things have moved, from
the assumption just 50 years ago that dams were always a power for
good, to the first successful attempt to remove a marginal dam 20 years
ago on the Kennebec River. The film highlights other dam removal
stories, including the Elwha and White Salmon Rivers in Washington, the
Rogue River in Oregon, and the Penobscot River in Maine.
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