Our members and our families feel strongly the only option that accomplishes both is the partial removal of the four lower Snake River dams. We are an organization of fishing families that not only cars about salmon but about our north Idaho friends who may be affected by our dam breaching decision. We favor a full investment package for thos affected by breaching. These dams have been putting people in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon out of business quietly for the last 40 years, while we tried our failed methods of salmon recovery. The time to act is now.
Scientific studies are complete.
Breaching the dams offers the only chance for meaningful salmon recovery. Returning to these waters after 195 years, I am overcome with despair to find the Columbia and Snake River salmon nearly eradicated by the nation I so proudly served. You have taken from these lands and rivers in every manner possible. Your dams sever the arteries that bring sustenance and life for the rivers, the streams, the giant white pine and all of the animals and plants that formerly thrived here. All he did was grab the camera and tell me I could do it.