Hi Judi,

I live very close to you, five minutes away from Puget Sound. I am astounded that there are only 74 animals left. I go to the beach on a daily basis in the summer and have seen the Orca but recently have only seen Minke whales. It is very sad.

Not one more salmon will get to our Southern Resident Pod. But it will take away a huge amount of electricity for the PNW.

be correct. Otherwise I'm not seeing how restoring habitat would not result in increased salmon.
Unless I'm wildly incorrect, I believe there were more salmon before the dams were built. The issue is that I doubt that the population would rebuild in time to help this resident pod of orcas.
While orcas range world wide, resident pods have not interbred with transient pods in over 100,000 years. They have their own distinct "language" and "culture". Resident pods only eat fish, while transients will attack other whales and other large marine mammals.
Preservation of the resident pods should be given a high priority. How would you approach preservation?

I don't understand. The damns that have been breached on the Olympic peninsula have already led to a return of salmon. Where do you get your information from? Your conjecture makes no sense.

Can the power from the damns be replaced with solar / tidal / wind power?

Please supply links, unless of course if you are a troll.

Plus there are plenty of places to deploy wind farms and solar arrays in the Northwest. There are huge swaths of central Washington unsuitable for farming. It’s about as inviting as the surface of the moon. Maybe that’s why they tested the lunar rover there...

this is a tragedy and the fucking administration surely won't make it any better