Idaho NEVER built a dam with a working fish ladder.  Yet thinks they have valid salmon issues.  

Sen Borah and Sen Church were in Idaho PowerCo's pocket.  No salmon issues to contend with and Idaho Power would not ask for dams on the Salmon, Lochsa or Selway Rivers.  Hubba hubba.  And Church got the largest Idaho Wilderness named for him,  Borah the highest mountain in the state.  

Oh,  and the "Four Snake River dams" that are in the deep state ecofreak attempts to remove,  are all in Washington state.  Which is why NOAA is being sued by irrigators because they refused to transport smolts downstream in 2015 when it was apparent that there was little snow pack,  unseasonably warm water.  The barges sat,  and the fish died,  which advanced the agenda to rip out the dams,  all a planned strategy by State and Federal deep state econazis.  

I have a dog in the fight.  I own a salmon troller.   I want NOAA  to answer for their malfeasance.  Political biology kills protected critters.