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Groups oppose plan to remove dams
Republican lawmaker
suggested removing
four Snake River
hydroelectric dams
BY NICHOLAS K. 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
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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
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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. They mar-
ried the next year and moved to
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Joyce, a Sioux, and
Buzz soon became
leaders among the
small band of Native
Americans in the area.
Portland’s Native
community began to
grow during World
War II, when the promise of
shipyard jobs brought people to
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try. In the 1950s, more Native
Americans settled in Portland
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dozens of tribes and relocated
members.
Recognizing that Native
Americans were falling through
the cracks of local schools and
social-service organizations,
Nelson and other activists
launched programs to support
those who were struggling fi-
nancially or feeling isolated in
the city.
“There was a lot of discrimi-
nation in the ’50s,” Joyce said in
2004. “We still face that today.
It’s important that our young
people feel like they belong
somewhere.”
Joyce focused on providing
that sense of belonging, es-
pecially for Native American
youth. She and fellow volunteers
in groups like the Bow and Ar-
row Club often ended up taking
on the roles for Native children
that extended families would
have assumed on reservations.
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