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Has anyone been following this story?
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Pretty interesting...had not heard a word about it until I saw your post--thanks. I'll definitely be following it.
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I posted some information on this board about 3 years ago when the dam was first proposed. I've been following it ever since then. Loosing the Narrows would be a big loss to the area. The Twin Lakes Canal Company has promised to contribute to fishing opportunities if the dam is built. For most anglers I don’t think the new fishing opportunities created would be worth trading the Narrows.
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Been following it since the start- Also have joined it on the writing of many letters against. I sincerly believe that the Twin Lakes Canal company doesn't present all the information - let's say in the most truthful way and I really believe the odds are not in their favor.
Festival planned to fight proposed dam in southeast Idaho
PRESTON, Idaho - An opponent of a proposed dam in southeastern Idaho is organizing a festival designed to increase awareness of the river and its recreational opportunities.
Will Peterson plans to hold the first Oneida [#ff0000]Narrows[/#ff0000] Regatta, Poetry and Arts Festival on June 23 in an attempt to keep one of the few free-flowing stretches of the Bear River still flowing.
He says he hopes to get thousands of people to the event so that area residents will realize how much money the river brings to the community.
The Twin Lakes Canal Company wants to build a dam on the river at Oneida [#ff0000]Narrows[/#ff0000].
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The company says it is moving ahead and is optimistic the dam will be approved. And so it continues. As you can see from Kevin Lewis' e-mail below the FERC has issued the scoping document for the Twin Lakes project, which officially opens the 60-day comment period for both the scoping document and the preliminary application document. I would strongly encourage everyone to prepare comments to FERC from their respective organizations. I have a few thoughts on courses of action over the next few weeks, and I'd love to hear any other ideas that folks might have. The scoping meetings are scheduled for March 14th, with an afternoon meeting for the agencies, NGO's, and tribes, and an evening meeting for the public. There is also a site visit scheduled for March 13. So far, it appears that Claire Bosen (Twin Lakes) has successfully orchestrated this so that the meetings will be held in a very small building (he did the same thing for the initial project announcement a couple of years ago). He can then pack the room with his 230 shareholders who arrive early. At any rate, it would be nice if we could mobilize as many folks as possible for both of the meetings, and the site visit. If the site visit ends up consisting of only FERC officials and Twin Lakes board members (as Twin Lakes would like) there is no telling what will be said.
I am hoping that the Franklin County Fish and Game Association can mobilize a good showing from Preston, and will try to help out with that as much as possible. It would also be nice to have some folks from Pocatello. I think that we can mobilize a fair number of folks from the Logan area (anglers, boaters, birders, etc.). I plan to post flyers everywhere that I can--including campus and at local businesses. It might also be a nice touch to have a bunch of anglers and other recreationists in the canyon on the 13th (if that's not too contrived). Claire has always maintained that 'nobody' really uses the canyon.
As far as preparing comments, one approach is to look through the Idaho Fish and Game document that is posted on the FERC site and to work through a comparison between that and the PAD that Twin Lakes submitted. I am not much of a bird guy, but it looks to me as though birds and other terrestrial wildlife really get the short stick in the Twin Lakes proposal. Twin Lakes doesn't even mention half of the sensitive species listed by IDFG, and generally glosses over anything potentially damaging. There are many other discrepancies, and it will be important to point them out--repeatedly. I will try to navigate the FERC web-site in the next few days and circulate the IDFG document to everyone. It is well put together and is pretty exhaustive in its catalog of fisheries and wildlife resources in Oneida [#ff0000]Narrows[/#ff0000] Canyon.
Again, if anyone has suggestions, critiques, or questions please speak up. Thanks.
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to hear/see!!! I have been fishing the Narrow since I was a toddler (26 now) and I am going up there next weekend also. I am currently stationed at Hill Air Force Base here in Utah, so if they do build a dam there guess I will have to "take one for the team" and hop into one of our $29 million jets and drop a bomb on that dam. I will be damned if they take away that great fishery, scenery, outdoor recreation we all call THE NARROWS!!!! 