Governor Little emphasizes legislative profits and protects the state's natural resources

Lewiston, Idaho – Governor Brad Little visited Lewiston on Monday to discuss the success of the legislative session 2025 and her impact on North Idaho. The legislator of Idaho approved 95 percent of the “Keeping Celebrity” plan of governor Little, who focuses on improving education, tax relief and infrastructure.

Governor Little emphasized the efforts to protect the state's natural resources, especially water resources. The legislator approved ongoing funds for critical water infrastructures of 30 million US dollars as part of the “holding promise” plan. This financing will support local projects, including the irrigation district project for Lewiston Orchards, which aims to bring water from the Clearwater River to solve the water supply problems in the Palouse. In addition, the governor and the salmon working group proposed a financing for a second pipe in the Dorshak Reservoir to provide the Dworshak National Fish Hattery water and support the laughing populations.

“I explained that I would rather have the people in Idaho who need water that they are not responsible than the federal courts or the congress or whoever that could be,” said governor Little and emphasized the importance of water sovereignty.

Governor Little also dealt with considerable suggestions in the state's fire program. He noticed the shifting of manned sinking on early fire detection for technology -based surveillance.

“A large part of this is replaced by technology, be it satellite technology, whether it is cameras that recognize lightning attacks so that we can provide resources as soon as possible,” he said.

However, the legislator has no longer committed ongoing funding for the suppression of fire representatives, which would have ensured that the state has had the necessary resources to prevent and react. Governor Little was disappointed with this result.

“To the point where the department for countries, if you carry out fire interprression and fire control, you have a money pool that you can always use, and now it will basically do it on the state's credit card, and then we have to come back afterwards and back it back,” he said.

Governor Little confirmed that investments in relaxation and land management are continued outdoors, especially if federal authorities are exposed to massive cuts. These cuts include thousands of layoffs in the National Forest Service, Park Service, Fish and Wildlife as well as in the Bureau of Land Management as well as at the workplace of workers and folk workers at the US Army Corps of Engineers.