Known for eastern Oregon's high desert, Puget Sound's watery groves, the Snake River's loop through a swath of Idaho, the headwaters streams fed from glacial Montana and the Tetons in Wyoming, the Pacific Northwest variant landscapes make up a fantastic spectrum of river character. The legacy of hydropower on these landscapes is widely acknowledged: hydropower is the principal energy source in the Northwest. Over 130 utility-owned hydropower projects lie within the Columbia River Basin alone, all of them public opportunities to restore our rivers.
