@flooded.for.progress: New Melones Dam drowned nine miles of California's Stanislaus River canyon in 1983 despite a national campaign, Wild and Scenic designation, and an activist who chained himself to a boulder — because the dam had been authorized thirty years earlier and the protection didn't apply retroactively. #StanislausRiver #CaliforniaHistory #DamHistory #WildAndScenic #EnvironmentalJustice

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Saturday 22 August 2026 12:43:29 GMT