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Dam Breaching 'Terribly Stupid Idea' by Bob Cummings Tri-City Herald, December 14, 2025

Accomplish this graded program and there will be
no need to even mention the terribly stupid idea

It is encouraging and refreshing to have Energy Secretary Wright confirm that this administration is not going to continue the nonsensical noise about breaching the lower Snake River dams. (TCH 12/5/25)

If the "save the salmon" folks want to be taken seriously they need to get behind a common sense, graded approach recovery plan. Before jumping to the most drastic breach-the-dams scenario, there are several steps that need to be taken first.

As in: Increase hatchery output; Close the entire salmon fishery for two or three years; Eliminate the bird colonies at the mouth of the Columbia River; Eliminate the sea lions at the mouth of the river and further upstream; Make a real effort to clear the spawning access to the creeks and small rivers in the Northwest and Northern California.

Accomplish this graded program and there will be no need to even mention the terribly stupid idea of breaching the dams and the irreparable damage that it would cause to agriculture, transportation, clean 24/7 energy and the environment of the Inland Empire.

Signs and noise aren't going to help the fish, a boring common sense approach will!

Bob Cummings, West Richland
Dam Breaching 'Terribly Stupid Idea'
Tri-City Herald, December 14, 2025