This is some pretty scary news coming out of southeast Idaho and western Wyoming where that area’s border rivers offer some great flyfishing for anglers out of Jackson, Wyo., and Idaho Falls. But that’s where Simplot is mining phosphate and in the process creating some freakshow fish, including two-headed specimins.
A new report, created for Simplot by Formation Environmental out of Boulder, Colorado, says there are all kinds of strange things going on in the water, including the Salt River, something that Simplot, of course, says they weren’t aware of. But the photos don’t lie and you can see one them right here, straight out of the report.
Here’s more on the subject from the Jackson Hole News:
Less than a week after J.R. Simplot Company officials denied knowledge of two-headed trout pictures taken near their Smoky Canyon Mine in eastern Idaho, a report confirmed the deformities.
A 694-page draft report, prepared for Simplot by Formation Environmental, of Boulder, Colo., and HabiTech, of Laramie, contains pictures of the trout. The August 2010 report is titled “Interpretive Findings for Field and Laboratory Studies and Literature Review in Support of a Site-Specific Selenium Criterion, Smoky Canyon Mine.”
The Smoky Canyon Mine is located in Idaho on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest about 10 miles west of Afton. Creeks polluted by the mine drain into the Salt River, which drains into Palisades Reservoir on the Snake River.
Last week, Simplot spokesman David Cuoio said his company didn’t know about READ MORE