Dams
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After the unexplained virtual disappearce of the salmon run in the Sacremento River after the best run in many years, the slow return of chinoock salmon into the Columbia has folks on edge. Rocky Barker writes about it today. Idaho Statesman. Update added April 11. Sharp Curb on Salmon Season. By FELICITY BARRINGER. New York…
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I haven’t posted on this before, although debating and planning for this has gone on for years. Yesterday, however, it came to fruition. The old Milltown Dam near Missoula was breached and two very important rivers were made free-flowing again. There was some positive rhetoric from the politicians. “Sen. Max Baucus, Sen. Jon Tester and…
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Board mulls hearing on Upper Green dam. Water commission not convinced reservoir idea would fly, but may consider public views. By Noah Brenner. Jackson Hole News and Guide. Aw the power to stupid ideas. That have such vitality! Like most proposals for new irrigation dams in the West, the economics are horrible. The environmental and…
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Rocky Barker sheds some light on a lesser known appropriations rider that Larry Craig sought to pass. The language would have limited water taken from Idaho reservoirs for salmon recovery. Craig salmon-water rider has uncertain future There has been speculation about another appropriations rider in response to the Senator’s wish to increase grazing (errr… “fuels…
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There is no doubt, the hoopla surrounding ID Senator Larry Craig is a well deserved condemnation of hypocrisy that’s been years in the coming and nobody is celebrating his descent more than progressives throughout the Northwest. Now, he has resigned effective September 30. But the shamefull manner in which a powerful Republican Senator squandered his…
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Idaho irrigators, boaters, fishers, commerical trout farmers, conservationists, anyone with a water right on the Snake River, and electrical power users have come to view the Swan Falls agreement of 1985 as a turning point in Idaho politics and water law. Now Idaho Power is going to court to claim that the pact didn’t leave…
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Lawmakers revisit the lower Snake River dam debate and demonstrate the change-up in Congress. It’ll be interesting… Read the Statesman’s article From Western Watersheds Blog: “The Idaho Statesman has an interesting article on a new bill that would study the economics of breaching four of the lower Snake River dams. Idaho’s federal politicians are already fortifying with Idaho economy guru,…
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Idaho’s new governor has another brand new idea fresh out of the 1940s — build more dams in Idaho to impound water. It might sound great if you haven’t followed the issue for a generation. Yes, there are dam sites left in Idaho, but there is not enough flow in the rivers to fill them.…