Salmon

Sunbeam Dam on the Salmon River was bought by the state of Idaho early in this centur. The adjacent bank was blasted out in the mid-1930's to provide fish passage for salmon and steelhead. Now, nearly a century later, the state lacks the initiative to protect these amazing fish runs by advocating dam removal and fish passage. Sunbeam dam also creates a fun rapid! The river upstream of Sunbeam Dam was once drowned by a reservoir until the state of Idaho blasted the bank next to the dam to provide fish passage. Now, the river provides a great class III paddling trip.