BPA follows time-worn pattern: Blame salmon for its own failings to adapt

By: Stephen Pfeiffer

Outlets: Idaho Capital Sun

Published: April 23, 2026

Words: 737

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Idaho’s future is caught in the bureaucratic stranglehold of a federal agency intent on clinging to the status quo.

Bonneville Power Administration’s business mindset operates as if salmon and other native fish of the Columbia Basin were placed into the dam-reservoir system that stairsteps its way down much of the Columbia and Snake rivers, rather than the other way around. The system is seen as immutable, and the declining health of fisheries and river …

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