02/08/2021
"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?
His proposal includes removing the earthen berms adjacent to all four Lower Snake River hydroelectric dams to let the river run free, to help save salmon from extinction, while spending billions of dollars to replace the benefits of the dams for agriculture, energy and transportation."
All four Lower Snake River Dams would be breached, and their benefits replaced under a $34 billion NW initiative proposed by Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho. The initiative is three years in the making and aimed to be part of President...