You have zero history on your side.  Idaho F&W POISONED the entirety of the Red Lakes Basin,  to eliminate sockeye salmon,  in order to restock with trout to  create a trophy fly fishery for Sun Valley visitors and the Ted Trueblood wildlife consumer class.

Idaho has NEVER built a dam with a fish ladder,  and the four dams that block the Snake River from Hells Canyon to Ontario are private dams,  built by Idaho Power Company,  with the whole hearted support of former Senators Borah and Church.  It sickens me that Church has a USFS Wilderness named for him.  Extirpating salmon to Nevada and the totality of the Oregon, Idaho and Nevada waters above Hells Canyon Dam deserves a black mark of distain by his name.  I repeat:  Idaho has never built a dam with a working fish ladder for salmon.  That is why the Payette Lake sockeye run is long gone,  and Stinkingwater,  a major Malheur River tributary no lingers smells bad from decaying,  spawned out salmon.  Idaho sucks!