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Bonneville Dam

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Bonneville Dam, one of the major dams on the Columbia River where it passes through the Cascade Mts., between Oregon and Wash. The dam, 2,690 ft (820 m) long and 197 ft (60 m) high, was built between 1933 and 1943 by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and was one of the largest hydroelectric projects undertaken under the New Deal New Deal, in U.S. history, term for the domestic reform program of the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; it was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic party nomination for President in 1932.
..... Click the link for more information. . It is used for navigation, flood control, and power production. Locks permit ships to pass around the dam; fish ladders allow salmon to spawn upriver.
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We saw more steelhead passing Bonneville Dam in a single day last summer than we used to see for an entire year.
Right plan can save salmon and the hydroelectric dams by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
In what seems a cruel twist of fate for wildlife just out for a bite to eat, the National Marine Fisheries Service last week gave permission to game managers in Washington and Oregon to start killing sea lions that feed on dwindling populations of migrating salmon near the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River.
Sacrificing sea lions for salmon by Scheer, Roddy / Our Planet
Four Indian tribes want state agencies in Washington and Oregon to give them the authority to protect salmon by killing sea lions that are feasting on them in the Columbia River near Bonneville Dam.
Lion kill by State Legislatures
 
 
 
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