WSU Economists Working With Stakeholders To Review Snake River Breaching Analysis

Scientists with Washington State University’s Freight Policy Transportation Institute are reaching out to regional stakeholders as part of a newly launched independent review of a state-contacted analysis of transport impacts from potential breaching of the four lower Snake Rivers dams. The review calls for WSU to work with representatives from agriculture, tourism, ports as well as other industries that would be impacted by a breach of those dams. Eric Jessup, research professor and director of the Institute said the Columbia and Snake River system affects many different parts of the Pacific Northwest.

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