Comments on: Will salmon finally win this year? https://writersontherange.org/will-salmon-finally-win-this-year%ef%bf%bc/ Syndicated Opinion for the American West Sun, 28 Aug 2022 19:53:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rick Freimuth https://writersontherange.org/will-salmon-finally-win-this-year%ef%bf%bc/#comment-101 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:17:16 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=4225#comment-101 I hope the salmon finally win this year. Thanks for catching us up on the Snake River dam wars Rocky. We lived in Moscow, Idaho from 1975-1994 and these dam removal rumors were always rampant. We had a good friend who worked for the Corps at Lower Granite and hearing about how his job was tied to salmon survival was intriguing yet disheartening. I mean sitting in front of a window counting salmon as they passed by was really ludicrous and in hopes of the single digit numbers of sockeye that would make it to Redfish Lake. Verne in his comment mentioned the removal of Edwards Dam on the Kennebec in Maine. We lived in Maine at that time and it was unreal how that river changed after the Edwards was breached. The Veazie Dam on the Penobscot River was breached in 2013. Atlantic salmon runs and sturgeon were slowly returning afterwards. Since the power generation of the four Snake River dams is inconsiquential to the NW power grid it really is time for the salmon and steelhead to win one. Now let’s make sure Rocky Barker’s Writers On Range article makes into the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Lewiston Tribune, Spokane Spokesman-Review and the Portland Tribune.

]]> By: Scott Hurley https://writersontherange.org/will-salmon-finally-win-this-year%ef%bf%bc/#comment-99 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:25:59 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=4225#comment-99 This subject has been smoke and mirrors the last 50 years; government’s agenda to give hope, but ultimately never achieve the hope for the bourgeoisie. My uncle, Salmon, ID, informed the public in the early to mid 70’s the decline of steelhead and salmon on the Salmon River… nearly 50 years ago… but “we” still fail to get it right… shame, shame!

]]> By: Verne W House https://writersontherange.org/will-salmon-finally-win-this-year%ef%bf%bc/#comment-98 Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:33:55 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=4225#comment-98 I enjoyed your report on this controversial topic. Well done, thank you for writing it. Simpson’s proposal seemed to lose momentum when PNW elected officials did not push to get it into Build Back Better. But, who knows what will happen next?
I know more about the Kennebec. It is relevant because proponents for removal of the Edwards Dam first had to get FERC to recognize that in stream flows produce benefits. It took ten years for agreement, but on the day the dam came down, I could not find any second guessing or opposition in Maine newspapers. I would send you the AWRA article that the Maine Extension Educator and I wrote if you wish. The anadromous fishes of Maine repopulated the Kennebec and tributaries, according to those who still use the river. The Edwards was the first dam removed in the US.

“Maine’s Kennebec River: Hot Politics, Effective Education,” by Ira L. Ellis and Verne W House, AWRA Jun 1993, pp 239-247.

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