Where is the outcry?

There seems to be more than a little agitation against the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes for seeking Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) mitigation funding to assist with their legitimate management of Flathead Lake and River fisheries. First of all, this is NOT federal tax money. The money comes from a permanent fund established by the Northwest Power Act of 1980 to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife habitat affected by the 31 dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers. The money comes from electric utilities that buy power from BPA. Montana and FWP regularly receive millions of dollars from this fund to mitigate damage caused by the development of Libby and Hungry Horse Dams.

BPA, through the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to restore and improve fish habitat, fund hatchery programs, etc. Some of that money is spent in Montana. This obligated money will be collected and spent based on a scientific review of proposed projects by an Independent Scientific Review Panel (ISRP). The panel makes recommendations on which projects are worthy of funding based simply on the science, not politics. This pot of rate-payer money will be spent based on the merit of proposed projects. Whether or not it is spent in Montana is up to the ISRP and BPA, not the federal government.
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Montana FWP is currently restoring native fish habitat in the upper Coal Creek drainage in the North Fork  and has recently proposed obtaining a conservation easement on 189 acres at the north end of Flathead Lake to expand the North Shore Wildlife Management Area. Both programs would use mitigation funding obtained from BPA. I have heard no outcry regarding funding of either project.

I hear no objection to the State of Montana receiving and spending millions of dollars of BPA-funded mitigation money for worthy wildlife proposals, but when the Tribes apply for needed funds through the same program, a hue and cry arises that they are trying to steal our tax money to kill our fish and enrich themselves. To me, there seems to be just a smattering of sour grapes to these arguments and maybe just a twinge of xenophobia.