, "The  poll shows residents of Southeast Idaho prefer making improvements in water efficiency to rebuilding Teton Dam by a margin of 63 to 26 percent."

Cost is one overriding factor -- a new dam would be enormously expensive -- but Barker also observed that Teton Canyon is a "world-class trout fishery," and that tourism and outdoors recreation have become much more important to the economy of eastern Idaho.

Are the political leaders in Idaho listening?