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Dam Builders and Anglers

Many acrimonious, and sometimes fatal, arguments took place among the early miners about water rights, but those disagreements paled in comparison to what happened when the Central Valley Project (CVP) was pushed through at the insistence of Central Valley and Southern California water users. The CVP steamrolled right over Trinity County residents and the few conservationists existing in those days, diverting water from the Trinity River to points south.

Trinity, Lewiston, and Whiskeytown Dams were completed in the early 1960s, drowning Trinity Meadows, among other things, and seriously damaging one of the finest salmon and steelhead fisheries left in California. In place of beautiful Trinity Meadows, and the opportunity to fish for salmon and steelhead, we now have the pleasure of water-skiing on red-dirt-rimmed Trinity Lake. However, all is not lost, as the Trinity River Restoration Program (trrp.net) has spearheaded efforts to enhance the fisheries habitat, and after years of serious declines, salmon and steelhead runs have shown some hope in recent years.