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An Idaho Republican congressman wants to end the salmon wars by removing select hydroelectric dams, replacing the electricity lost, paying communities and businesses, and giving American Indian tribes more power.
Every single salmon and steelhead that spawns in Wallowa County streams must navigate the four dams on the lower Snake River twice — once as a smolt en route to
After long impasse, GOP congressman pitches potential solution for Snake River salmon runs
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
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By Lynda V. Mapes, Seattle Times
For nearly three decades, the region has been stuck in unending litigation and spiraling costs as salmon in the Columbia and Snake rivers decline toward extinction. But in a sweeping $34 billion proposal from an unlikely source, at an auspicious moment, comes a chance for a fresh start.
Could Congressman Mike Simpson, a Republican from a conservative district in eastern Idaho, have launched a concept that will forever alter life on the Columbia and Snake and finally honor tribal treaty fishing rights in the Columbia Basin?
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