Author Robin Cody and Clackamas Web Academy biology teacher Terri Gibson talking on their way to tour the River Mill dam with students.
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The River Mill Dam in Estacada, owned and operated by PGE.
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Robin Cody and students from the Clackamas Web Academy stand on a platform just above the Clackamas river.
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Retired PGE tour guide Terry Judkins explains the River Mill dam structure to Clackamas Web Academy students.
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PGE's Tim Shibahara explains the company's investments in the latest fish passage.
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Tim Shibahara holds two different species of fish to see if any of the teenagers or adults could tell the difference.
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Students crowd around PGE's Tim Shibahara to see what the salmon tracking device looks like.
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The view from the top of the River Mill dam in Estacada.
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Warning sign above the spillway at the River Mill dam.
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Electricity-producing generators at the River Mill dam.
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A close up view of one of the River Mill dam generators.
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The end of more than seven miles of the fish passage tunnel that allows salmon to get past the dam.
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Salmon are released at the end of the seven-mile tube directly into the Clackamas river, below the River Mill dam.
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- We talk to Oregon's junior U.S. Senator about the health care bill Senate Republicans are putting together behind closed doors, and the shootings of Congressmen this week at a baseball practice.
- For the 25th anniversary publication of the book Ricochet River, we visited with a class of students at Clackamas Web Academy who are reading the book, along with author Robin Cody.
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