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Fifty years ago in June, elected officials gathered in Lewiston to celebrate a remarkable feat: With the completion of the Lower Snake River dams, a $1 billion project had effectively turned the ...
Less than a month after President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum revoking a Biden-era agreement regarding the ...
If we want to recover Idaho's wild salmon and steelhead runs, breaching the Lower Four Snake River Dams is the best conservation tool we have.
Ports and ag groups support decision to rescind action on four Snake River dams that will help with grain exports and irrigation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA-04) expressed support for President Donald Trump's recent memorandum reversing previous executive actions targeting the Lower Snake River dams.
For years, there have been political debates in Washington as to whether or not the lower Snake River dams should be breached or demolished to help endangered salmon subspecies recover.
Members of the Upper Mississippi River Waterway Association will tour the Columbia-Snake River system the week of June 23. The tour is the latest in an ongoing partnership with Pacific […] ...
Barges offer an efficient and environmentally friendly transportation method—a single barge can carry as much grain as 35 jumbo train hoppers or 134 semitrucks. Supporters argue that keeping the Snake ...
KENNEWICK, Wash. - Senator Matt Boehnke introduced a senate joint memorial in Olympia that recognizes the lower Snake River Dams and their roles in the region.
“The navigation-wheat interests are deathly afraid of an objective analysis of the Lower Snake River rail transport alternative,” said Olsen, with the irrigators association.
Farmers in north central Idaho rely on the tug-and-barge transportation that the Snake River dams make possible and oppose efforts to breach the dams, which would return the river to a free ...