Little State Parks and Wind Farms along the route

We are almost HOME.  We have been staying one night at several small State Park campgrounds in Idaho and Oregon.  Since we left NY we are inspired by seeing every state has increased their Wind and Solar Farms.  The land is vast out here.  It is so heartening to see cattle grazing under a Wind Turbine than near an oil fracking rig. The best was to see Idaho is using it all Solar, Wind and Water. One little Energy Power company had Solar and Wind right beside its building along Hwy 20. just outside the National Forests.

One of the Idaho State Parks: You can see in the picture below the storms that have been chasing us - they come with wind. 

In the photos below: The Columbia River through Oregon on one side and Washington on the other has 4 dams and Wind Farms on each side. I have written about dams before and how ambiguous I feel about them. Yes, they destroy natural habitat and the ones along the Columbia and Snake disrupted the salmon and trout migrations. They were built for irrigation (the best story came from our Snake River Guide that said the dam on Jackson Lake and the Snake was to irrigate Idaho and Idaho actually controls it with cooperation from Wyoming.  And what does Idaho grow-you got it potatoes.), flood control, energy, but now bring in tons of revenue in recreation to very poor regions of the country. Our guide on the Snake River said he came to fish 6 years ago straight out of college in Ohio and stayed. He is a river guide during the summer and in winter takes people out on snow mobiles to look at the wildlife, his partner works for the Teton Lodges.  Bringing wolves back into Yellowstone has increased the winter revenue of the towns around Yellowstone by the millions of dollars$$$$$$$$$ because everyone wants to see the wolves. And has helped increased the balance in nature that has affected not only the predator's prey but ripples down/up to even the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.  That is an interesting science read. Of course, the wolves are only one part of the equation, but they are probably to me the most majestic, like the mountains.  Seeing those wolves run through the Hayden Meadow. Wow!  Just Wow!