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Diabierna 10 Juni 2022

Authorities: 3 dead, trooper wounded in Maryland shooting

SMITHSBURG, Md. (AP) in downtown Smithsburg
— A man opened fire at a Thursday evening waiting for
manufacturing business information on their loved
in rural western Maryland ones. They declined to speak
on Thursday, killing three to a reporter.
people before the suspect Several hours after the shoot-
and a state trooper were ing, numerous law enforce-
wounded in a shootout, ment officers remained at
authorities said. the scene. Police had closed
off the road that runs past
The Washington County the Columbia Machine Inc.
Sheriff’s Office said in a news facility, and yellow tape blew
release that three victims in the wind outside the busi-
were found dead at Colum- ness.
bia Machine Inc. in Smiths- Messages left seeking com-
burg and a fourth victim was ment with the company
critically injured. The suspect weren’t immediately re-
then fled in a vehicle and was turned.
tracked down by Maryland Smithsburg, a community
State Police, according to the of nearly 3,000 people, is
news release. just west of the Camp Da-
The suspect and a trooper vid presidential retreat and
were wounded in an ex- about 75 miles (120 kilome-
change of gunfire, the sher- ters) northwest of Baltimore.
iff’s office said. Both were one officer returned fire and reporters. place, Sheriff’s Office Sgt. The manufacturing facility
being treated for their inju- wounded the suspect. Authorities did not have in- Carly Hose said at a news was in a sparsely populated
ries. Gov. Larry Hogan, who “The suspect fired and shot formation on whether the conference. area northeast of the town’s
was briefed on the shooting, the state trooper in the shoul- suspect and victims were Family members of work- center with a church, sev-
said that the man opened fire der, who then returned fire employees of the company ers at the manufacturer were eral businesses and farmland
on troopers before at least and shot him,” Hogan told where the shooting took gathering at a fire station nearby.

Replacing benefits of Snake River dams would cost billions

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — our economy and cultural the dams, which are located
The benefits provided by heritage,” they said. “We each in their districts. “Breaching
four giant hydroelectric remain firmly committed to the four lower Snake River
dams on the lower Snake saving our salmon.” dams would be harmful to
River in Washington state Breaching the dams would our communities, our envi-
can be replaced if the significantly improve the ronment, and our economy,”
dams are breached to save ability of salmon and steel- Newhouse said.
endangered salmon runs, head to swim from their in- “What’s alarming is trying to
according to a new report land spawning grounds to the breach them at a time when
released Thursday. Pacific Ocean, where they families in Eastern Washing-
spend most of their lives, and ton are paying record-high
But it would be expensive. then back to their original energy costs just to keep the
Finding other ways to pro- spawning grounds to procre- lights on this summer,” Mc-
vide electricity, irrigation and ate and die, the report said. Morris Rodgers said.
enabling commerce would Major benefits of the dams But the chairman of the
cost between $10.3 billion include making the Snake Yakama Nation said the dams
and $27.2 billion, said the River navigable up to Lewis- must be breached. and Lower Granite in 1975. though it found that breach-
report commissioned by ton, Idaho, allowing barges to “Our people are salmon The dams stretch from Pas- ing the dams would be the
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, carry wheat and other crops people,” said tribal council co, Washington, to near Pull- most effective salmon recov-
a Democrat, and U.S. Sen. to ocean ports. Eliminat- chairman Delano Saluskin. man, Washington, and stand ery action, federal agencies
Patty Murray, D-Wash. ing the dams would require “When the salmon thrive, we between migrating salmon ultimately decided against it.
The draft report does not truck and rail transporta- thrive; but when they suffer, and 5,500 miles (8,850 kilo- The U.S. government has
make any recommendations tion improvements to move our people suffer too.” meters) of spawning habitat spent more than $17 billion
on whether the four dams crops, the report said. Exploring the Columbia Riv- in central Idaho. trying to recover Snake River
should be breached. A deci- The dams also generate elec- er Basin in 1805, Lewis and The dams have fish ladders, salmon, through improve-
sion on that divisive issue is tricity, provide irrigation wa- Clark wrote of waterways but too many of the salmon ments to fish ladders and
expected later. Instead, the ter for farmers and recreation so full with salmon that you die as they swim through the other measures, with little
report allows the public, opportunities for people, the could all but walk across on dams and across slackwater to show for it. In 2017, the
tribes, river users and other report said. their backs. reservoirs on their migra- number of Chinook salmon
stakeholders to provide input The dams have many sup- In the late 1800s, up to 16 tions. returning to the Snake River
over the next month that will porters, including two GOP million salmon and steel- In 1991, Snake River salmon dropped below 10,000.
inform that decision. members of Congress repre- head returned to the Colum- and steelhead were listed as The reduction in the salmon
“We continue to approach the senting eastern Washington bia River Basin every year to endangered species, requir- population is also a blow to
question of breaching with state. The dams are also sup- spawn. Over the next cen- ing production of a federal the endangered Southern
open minds and without a ported by barge companies, tury and a half, overfishing recovery plan. Over the next Resident killer whale popu-
predetermined decision,” farmers and other business whittled that number down. three decades, environmental lation. More than 90% of the
Inslee and Murray said in a interests. Breaching them By the early 1950s, just un- organizations sued the feder- whales’ diet is salmon, which
press release. would require an act of Con- der 130,000 Chinook were al government six times, ar- come from a variety of places
“Every community in the Pa- gress. returning to the Snake River. guing that the recovery plan including the Snake River
cific Northwest knows the Republican U.S. Reps. Dan Construction of the first dam was inadequate. system.
value and importance of our Newhouse and Cathy Mc- on the lower river, Ice Har- The most recent lawsuit, in Dam supporters blame de-
iconic salmon runs—and ev- Morris Rodgers of eastern bor, began in 1955. Lower 2016, resulted in a four-year clining salmon runs on oth-
ery community recognizes Washington introduced a Monumental followed in study of the environmen- er factors, such as changing
the importance of salmon to bill on Thursday to protect 1969, Little Goose in 1970, tal impact of the dams. Al- ocean conditions.