Thanks for the feedback and the compliments, everyone. It's really
helpful, particularly when the experience is intense, to get comments
from people who weren't there. Yes, I understand about the salmon. But
hydro is one way to get energy without burning buried carbon. There are
tradeoffs to everything, nothing is "pure."
I don't know why they didn't build fish ladders at Chief Joseph and
Grand Coulee Dams. Perhaps it considered was too big an engineering
challenge or too costly. And in 1930-55 hardly anybody considered the
environment.
Chris, I did indeed think of the WPA photographs while I was taking
these pictures.
--Peter
> I liked the first one Peter. (...497)
> Melting snowpack and unseasonable rain is causing a lot of flooding
and grief for E-WA right now. Unusual for the desert side.
> And those dams may be impressive but are efficiently extirpating the
native salmon runs.
> M
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