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A2 THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2021 The Bulletin How to reach us LOCAL, STATE & REGION DESCHUTES COUNTY CIRCULATION Didn’t receive your paper? Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday 7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday and holidays Deschutes County cases: 5,738 (24 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 56 (zero new deaths) LOCAL VACCINATIONS Crook County cases: 747 (1 new case) Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths) 23,066 Jefferson County cases: 1,888 (4 new cases) Jefferson County deaths: 27 (zero new deaths) Number of vaccinations given by St. Charles Health System 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. ONLINE 108 new cases 120 (Jan. 1) 90 new cases 110 *No data available on Jan. 31 due to state computer maintenence (Nov. 27) 90 70 50 (Nov. 14) 7-day average 28 new cases (July 16) 40 31 new cases (Oct. 31) 30 16 new cases (Sept. 19) 20 (May 20) 1st case 100 80 47 new cases 9 new cases www.bendbulletin.com 130 (Dec. 4) What is COVID-19? 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GERANIOS The Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — Nearly two decades ago, Republican President George W. Bush stood on a bank of the Snake River near Pasco, Washing- ton, and declared that four hydroelectric dams would not be torn down on his watch, though many blamed them for killing endangered salmon. This month, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho issued a bold plan that called for removing those same dams to save the salmon. In between those two acts were decades of litigation that show no sign of ending and $17 bil- lion worth of improvements to the dams that did little to help fish. Now the question is: Can Simpson’s plan win approval from Congress and the Biden administration and help save an iconic Pacific Northwest species from extinction? Other Republicans are vow- ing to save the dams. Demo- crats have come out in support of Simpson’s plan, which calls for spending $33 billion to breach four dams, replace the lost hydroelectric energy with other sources and ensure that irrigation, river navigation and flood control will continue as before. The issue of what to do with the Snake River dams has long divided the Pacific Northwest, with Democrats generally sid- ing with saving the salmon and Republicans saying it’s CORRECTIONS The Bulletin’s primary concern is that all stories are accurate. If you know of an error in a story, call us at 541-383-0367. TO SUBSCRIBE Call us ......................541-385-5800 • Home delivery and E-Edition ..........................$7 per week • By mail .................................$9.50 per week • E-Edition only ...................$4.50 per week To sign up for our e-Editions, visit www.bendbulletin.com to register. 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The Bulletin, USPS #552-520, is published daily by Central Oregon Media Group, 320 SW Upper Terrace Drive, Bend, OR 97702. Periodicals postage paid at Bend, OR. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Bulletin circulation department, P.O. Box 6020, Bend, OR 97708. The Bulletin retains ownership and copyright protection of all staff-prepared news copy, advertising copy and news or ad illustrations. They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. ý Lottery results can now be found on the second page of Sports. foolish to remove hydropower resources in the era of climate change. But Lindsay Slater, Simp- son’s chief of staff, said the political winds are blowing in favor of a solution to this de- cadeslong controversy. For one thing, the Biden administration is preparing a massive economic relief pack- age for the nation, and Simp- son wants the Northwest to designate this solution to the salmon issues for the region’s share of the package, Slater said. For another, Democratic control of the Senate has pro- pelled numerous longtime senators from the Northwest into committee leadership positions for the first time in years, he said. “There is all this seniority in the Northwest,” Slater said, pointing to Washington Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Can- twell and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden. “This is lightning in a bot- tle. It really is,” Slater said. “We are telling stakeholders this is a once-in-30-years opportunity. Do we want to grab it?” Simpson was motivated by the prospect of continued liti- gation even as salmon die off, Slater said. Simpson unveiled the plan in a video posted to his website Feb. 6 , saying, “The current system is clearly not working.” Four Republican House members — Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Dan Newhouse and Jaime Herrera Beutler, all from Washington, and Rep. Russ Fulcher of Idaho — opposed Simpson’s plan. “The hydropower devel- oped in the Pacific Northwest benefits every resident, family, and business in our region,” they said in a joint statement. “Without it, life as we know it in our region would cease to exist.” McMorris Rodgers, whose district has several of the dams, has long fought to pre- serve the structures. “Spending more than $33 billion to breach them — with no guarantee that doing so will restore salmon populations — is a drastic, fiscally irresponsi- ble leap to take,” she said. Conservation and tribal groups issued statements sup- porting Simpson’s proposal. The plan calls for the re- moval of the Lower Granite Dam near Colfax in 2030, with removal of three other dams — Ice Harbor, Little Goose OBITUARY • JOYCE NELSON REDMOND BUREAU Mailing address ..................P.O. Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 Phone ......................................... 541-617-7829 Ted S. Warren/AP file The Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River is seen in 2019 from the air near Colfax, Washington. A Repub- lican congressman has proposed removing four hydroelectric dams in the Northwest, including the Lower Granite Dam, as part of a sweeping plan to save salmon populations and provide aid to farmers and others. and Lower Monumental — in 2031. The dams were built in the 1950s and 1960s to pro- vide power, flood control, irri- gation and to make navigable a portion of the Snake River from Lewiston, Idaho, to the Tri-Cities of Richland, Kenne- wick and Pasco in Washing- ton, and downriver to Pacific Ocean ports. Simpson’s proposal includes removing the earthen berms adjacent to all four Lower Snake River hydroelectric dams to let the river run free, while spending billions to re- place the benefits of the dams for agriculture, energy and transportation. Glen Squires, head of the Washington Grain Commis- sion, said Simpson should look to his own backyard if he wants to help fish. “If the representative is so interested in dams and getting fish back to Idaho, I’d suggest he look at those within his state that were built without fish passage, cutting fish off from pristine habitat,” Squires said. Nez Perce tribal Chairman Shannon Wheeler, whose an- cestors kept Lewis and Clark alive with salmon from Ida- ho’s rivers when the starving explorers stumbled into Nez Perce territory in 1805, said the tribe strongly supports Simpson’s plan. Simpson is not the only one seeking a comprehensive solu- tion to helping conserve the salmon population while pro- viding for the region’s power needs. The governors of Wash- ington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana have formed the Co- lumbia Basin Collaborative, which must be involved in any solution, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said recently. Influential Oregon Native American activist dies at 86 BY DOUGLAS PERRY The Oregonian Joyce Nelson, a prominent local Native American activist who helped found the pioneer- ing Native American Rehabili- tation Association, died Feb. 4. She was 86. Joyce received numerous honors through the years for her community service, including a Spirit of Portland Award in 2006 for being “a consistent source for collaboration and advocacy in the Native American com- munity in Portland for over 50 years.” Delores Joyce (Culbertson) Nelson was born on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana. She and her family moved to Ore- gon in 1944 . After graduating from Haskell Institute, now Haskell Indian National University, Nelson in Lawrence, Kansas, Joyce worked as a sec- retary at the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs in North Dakota. In 1956, she met John “Buzz” Nelson, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and a great-grandson of Chief Red Cloud. 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