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Breach Dams by Caroline DiVietro Idaho Statesman, January 20, 2022

I'm a junior at Boise High and part of the Youth Salmon Protectors. I see the way prior generations have decimated the beauty that God created all around us and instead of worsening this destruction,

I'd like to fix it.

Congressman Simpson's proposal takes care of all parties. It invests in new clean energy to make electricity cheaper in the Pacific Northwest. It subsidizes rail rather than barge shipping, so Idaho farmers can have easy and affordable access to the global market. It honors the treaties the government made to Idaho's indigenous communities. And, it saves our wild salmon and steelhead, restoring the Snake River to how it was meant to be.

I'm calling on Senator Crapo to support the Columbia Basin Initiative and I encourage readers to do the same. We must breach the dams and save our fish.