Save the Oneida Narrows
Some of my readers may not know this little fact about yours truly. I am a board member of Idaho Rivers United. This last weekend IRU sponsored a river trip down the Oneida Narrows section of Bear River located in southeast Idaho.
This section of river has a proposed dam project. Many locals are fighting it as the river and canyon are very beautiful and many in the area recreate in the canyon.
It is very nice to see that one of the strongest advocates for the river, fighting against the dam project, is a local farmer. Not often do farmers and environmentalists join forces. This proposed project has brought together a community to protect a natural resource they love. It is great, as a state wide environmental group, to help support a grass roots fight to save a river.
Here are a few photos from the day's float.
Keep an eye on the local newspapers for coverage about the issue. On the float were two young ladies working for the Herald Journal out of Logan, Utah. I guess it is receiving more interest across state lines. Shame on the rest of the state. Utah cares more about Idaho rivers then we do?
To view more images from the float, click here.
This section of river has a proposed dam project. Many locals are fighting it as the river and canyon are very beautiful and many in the area recreate in the canyon.
It is very nice to see that one of the strongest advocates for the river, fighting against the dam project, is a local farmer. Not often do farmers and environmentalists join forces. This proposed project has brought together a community to protect a natural resource they love. It is great, as a state wide environmental group, to help support a grass roots fight to save a river.
Here are a few photos from the day's float.
Keep an eye on the local newspapers for coverage about the issue. On the float were two young ladies working for the Herald Journal out of Logan, Utah. I guess it is receiving more interest across state lines. Shame on the rest of the state. Utah cares more about Idaho rivers then we do?
To view more images from the float, click here.
posted by Jonathan at 10:06:00 PM
2 Comments:
I completely agree with this river preservation issue. There are only a handful of gorgeous rivers in this area and we need to do our best to keep them natural.
Well It's a bunch of bull pucky that we in Idaho do care about our rivers. Utah said they were going to have a river fest. July 12, 2008. TV coverage was channel 6 thats in Pocatello Idaho. Read the paper, again in Pocatello we had coverage. The collage was working on that, The students got credit for the weekend work. Guest who got to do the clean up. I thought the whole thing was a poorly done. Music was good but the people who ran the thing were not organized. Didn't want help from the locals. My daughter and son in law live down there wanted to help. I went down on Thursday and spent till Monday cleaning up after Utah SLOBS. It was my 8 month old grad daughter's first camping trip. She loved it.
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