The North Country Angling column written by Steve Angers titled “Damn Dams,” on the adverse impact of dams, contained several statements that I feel are either misleading or incorrect, and I would like to offer the following as rebuttal.
Angers tells us that over the past 25 years, science has shown that dams are detrimental to the environment and that removal of dams leads to improvement in the overall quality of the watershed.
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