Removing dams on Snake River won’t save salmon

Published 1:30 am Friday, September 8, 2023

I have been following the pros and cons about removing the dams on the lower Snake River in Washington state.

Many tribes and their allies want them gone. I also read that every river on the West Coast from the Sacramento to the Yukon are seeing fewer fish. I even read that people who live in small villages on the Yukon were not able to bring in a winter’s supply of salmon because they just weren’t there to catch.

I don’t believe there is one dam on the Yukon or is there any dams on many West Coast rivers. I read today that the temperatures above the Arctic circle in Alaska in the last few years has reached the 90s, which used to be unheard of.

It seems to me that even if the taxpayers spend God knows how many billions removing the dams and then replacing the power generation, not to mention the agriculture and transportation, we still may not save the fish. It’s nice to think of how things were several hundred years ago but now we have many millions of folks living in the Northwest all of them use lots of electricity .

Mike Miller

Everett