[r9etb]

Removal of the dams could help the region diversify its power supply, the report said, while providing up to 15,000 new jobs over a 20-year period, primarily in recreation.

So they're telling us that the tourist trade will bring that many jobs, eh?

Note to Rand: there's a reason why hardly anybody lives in that part of Washington, and it's the same reason that there won't be no 15,000 tourism jobs: In the summer it's hot, dry, windy, rocky, and not terribly pretty. In the winter it's cold, dry, rocky, and not terribly pretty.

[Libertina]

In the summer it's hot, dry, windy, rocky, and not terribly pretty. In the winter it's cold, dry, rocky, and not terribly pretty
Very funny.

[The Shadow Knows]

Well said. The tourists only come for the fishing, boating and sailboarding in the reservoirs behind the dams.