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Klamath River Project Early Summer update 2024
The Upper Klamath Lake of Oregon is one of the United States’ largest freshwater lakes at approximately 96 square miles of surface area (61,543 acres). Combined with its interconnected neighbor, Agency Lake, it’s over 109 square miles (70,000 acres) at about 25 miles long and 2.5 to 12.5 miles wide. [1] The Lake is fed…
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Klamath River Project 2023 Update
The Klamath River is free to flow through Wards Canyon for the first time in a century. Copco 2 and its headgate were fully removed in fall of 2023. Three more dams will be removed in 2024. Slide Show – Twenty Four Photographs In Retrospect It’s been eight months since last posting. Despite the apparent…
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Undamming the Klamath
After decades of peaceful protest, scientific study, and political wrangling, four Klamath dams are coming down. River renewal has begun. The Klamath River Renewal Project is managed by the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) whose mission “is to remove the Klamath hydroelectric dams and restore a free-flowing river.” This is a remarkable turning point in…
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The Only Other Thing is Nothing
Searching the phrase “the only other thing is nothing” will most likely reveal this artwork by MIDABI (aka, Michael Daniel Birnberg). The first Internet hits may refer to a pristine version installed in 2021 in New York City’s Union Square, but the Salton Sea of California has its very own weathered version from March 2019.…
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On the Road in California
On the Road: January 12, 13, 16, 17. A good road trip makes room for the journey where experience becomes the destination…. Twelve selections from January 13 – 17 click to view.
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Under Construction Again
Big change in progress – website maintenance through January, 2023. Expect a few bumps with occasional nonsense. Thank you for visiting. About the photo and video: I was curious about these large boulders seen being transported from a quarry near my home. Hundreds of them, over two years, some weighing 15 tons, were delivered to…
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Wrecking Ball at the Playground
The area behind the Bayshore Mall, known as the Palco Marsh, is named after the Pacific Lumber Company who at one time operated a kiln drying lumber mill at this location. In recent years, this abandoned post-industrial wasteland became property of the City of Eureka and came under increasing scrutiny as folks began to congregate, making it…
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McDaniel Slough, Arcata
2005-2015: On September 24, 2013 the tide gates at McDaniel Slough were removed as part of the McDaniel Slough Restoration and Enhancement Project at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, Arcata, California. Designed to accommodate sea-level rise, the project returned 250 acres to natural tidal influence for bird and fish habitat as well as improved…
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Chagdud Gonpa Rigdzin Ling, Junction City, CA
Rigdzin Ling is a Tibetan Buddhist Center located in Junction City, California. The Center’s focus is on preservation of the arts, philosophy, and meditation practices of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. I was mesmerized by the large mechanical prayer wheels. The embedded video above is made from a sequence of several hundred images exposed 1 second apart and played…
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website re-construction 2015
Meridian Photo is being rebuilt to add new features common to modern Internet technology including this Contact Page. The former Meridian Photo website can be found here: Joseph Wilhelm photography 1990-2009. Thank you for visiting, Joseph Wilhelm