Yeah, what could a conservation project that's mostly kayaking look like?

Yeah, and it feels felt like a very fitting place for a project like this one would be born.

You know, that same sort of like full body sensory

experience that we described watching the avalanche flow out on the south fork like

multiply that tenfold and that was the feeling of standing above slide.

You can look at kind of historical graphs of anatomous fish returns through the dams. of drop and so it is a pretty glaring impact.

Like you can hear how much gratitude we all had in that moment making it to that point together.

And the crazy thing was we were like barely halfway through.

You would just not accept that trade if somebody weighed that out and offered it to you

right from that free-flowing river, those salmon runs, that landscape, that

ecosystem, and somebody said, well, here's the trait you're going to make with me.

And you would just say, no, it you know be like trading of Rolls Royce for a

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