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Losses Exceed BenefitsTeton Dam Opponents SayIt Won't Hold WaterIDAHO PALLS (AP-Opponents of the controversial Teton Dam blasted (he project at a symposium Sunday, saying ,rlt won’t bold water'1 in view of losses to sportsmen and wildlife.Idaho Fish and GameDeparl* ment Wildlife Biologist Robert Sherwood said the dam, if built, would adversely affect over ],-100 deer and innumerable others animals in the area.There is no place lo movethem,” Sherwood said, referring to the deer, We could move them to another range bus our ranges are all overcrowded as it is,They can starve there (the dam area) or we can move them and let them starve someplace else,”Sherwood said mitigation possibilities exist in the immediate area, but mitigation lias never been done,Paul Jeppsou, Region Fisheries Biologist of the Idaho Fish and Game Dept, said a designated “blue ribbon'1 trouttroain would be lost with the*chiui's impounding; of water.Trout spawning will decrease, he said, and trash flsb population will go up. The reservoir will eliminate most trout seed,”Jeppsou said parasites have infested other reservoirs in the state ruining quality fishing and Increasing numbers of non-game such as chub5 and suckers.He discounted claims the reservoir which I tie dam will form would provide a popular fishing spot,T tie re are problems managing reservoir fishing, he said, Palisades reset voir has been a source of numerous problems for the Fish auu Came Dept, because of the high trash fish population, he added,Jeppsou said the Teton River, which will be backed up for 17 miles behind the dam, is second only to Warm River as the state's best trout stream.Other speakers emphasized cost-benefit rations had beeniti • iexaggerated and overstated' by plopponents of the dam,Idaho Slate University h\i 00111 ic s P ro tensor John Me r r t am said (he entire project will have to be two-thirds Federally subsidized under the estimated I hr ee-aiid-one half per cent interestrate.Morrism called (he Bureau of Reclamation Project cos? esti-males euphoric assumptions and added t tie project can’t ho Id water economically/*Former Bureau of Reclamation Engineer H, Tom Davis said floor control benefits of the dam have been significantly over-estimated,Davis, now chairman of Hie Idaho Environmental Council's Stream Protection Committee, said off-set love os are the real answer to the flood control problems ,Idaho Sira
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Mon, Jun 05, 1972
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