In 1974, Evel Knievel tried to jump over the Snake River canyon in a steam-powered rocket.
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Less than one percent of Califonia's energy supply comes from the lower Snake River dams, conservation groups note.
Organizations that endorse removing the four lower Snake River dams to save salmon say the resolution is unfair.
That list is paired with a menu that offers Snake River Farms Kobe beef and Martinsdale Colony Hutterite duck.
Seven years later he almost drowned while failing to jump the Snake River Canyon, a quarter-of-a-mile wide, in Idaho.
On average, the four Lower Snake River dams annually produce about 1, 231 megawatts of power, according to the Bonneville Power Administration.
About 75 percent of the Pacific Northwest's electricity used to create and maintain jobs is provided by Columbia and Snake River system dams.
"We should let the people of the Northwest decide the fate of Snake River salmon, " said Scott Faber, a spokesman for American Rivers.
Because of federal dams operating on the Snake River, every species of salmon has been listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Mere chat about the Elwha project already seems to have emboldened foes of dams on the Snake river in Washington state and Idaho.
Poison in the Vadose Zone: An examination of the threats to the Snake River Plain aquifer from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.
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Jackson Hole Whitewater organises half day excursions on the class III Snake River with some big rapids through the limestone cliffs of Snake River Canyon.
Federal and independent studies have shown that removing four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington state is the best option for saving Snake River salmon.
The ranch's 16 restored miles of the Little Snake River now boast some of the West's best trout fishing, and dedicated anglers have been returning for a decade.
According to Bosse, there is scant proof that egg-to-smolt survival, which occurs during the first year of life, has decreased since the four lower Snake River dams were constructed.
"This energy crisis will not spiral out of control or be brought under control by what happens to the Snake River dams, " said Scott Bosse of Idaho Rivers United.
Nevertheless, conservation groups maintain that the energy crisis does not dim their current proposal to remove the four Lower Snake River dams in order to recover endangered salmon populations.
Although no one admits to any large airborne releases of radiation, at least 11 billion gallons of radioactive waste were injected into the Snake River aquifer between 1953 and 1984.
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"It is impossible to reconcile a maximum transport approach to salmon recovery with protection of the remaining diversity of salmon and steelhead populations in the Snake River basin, " the report notes.
"When my parents were my age, their parents were dead and they were having fun white-water rafting down the Snake River and here I sit -- two houses down, " said Jones.
Since there is little scientific data on the survival within estuary and ocean habitat, conservationists say recovery efforts should target the migration corridor, which has been greatly impacted by the four lower Snake River dams.
The Columbia and Snake River system allows large volumes of freight to be moved with negligible impact on air quality, and replacing this transportation capacity would require use of 120, 000 rail cars or 700, 000 trucks.
If the dams are not removed, new restrictions on logging, fish harvest, shipping channel deepening, and irrigated agriculture would be needed to avoid the extinction of five runs of Snake River salmon and steelhead, the paper says.
Thus were exposed not only the Snake River Potato Growers but the hard-cider producers of New York and Vermont (who were to be allowed to pay lower federal excise taxes) and the sheriffs of Mississippi, who were to be allowed a new tax deduction for business expenses.
Mr Simplot himself, an avowed lover of skiing, duck shooting and the great outdoors, was attacked in the 1970s for his support for new coal-fired electricity plants along the Snake river and for a scheme to generate hydro-power by diverting water from another river into a vast underground tube.
Located mid-way between the town of Jackson Hole and the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, close to the Grand Teton National Park and the Snake River, the community of some 27 homes on about 640 acres includes hundreds of protected acres on which there is a wildlife habitat with swans, elk moose, eagles, and osprey.
This is a formidable lobby in the Pacific north-west, which has been defined to a remarkable degree by 16 huge dams that blockade the Columbia river and its principal tributary, the Snake.
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