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...Glines Canyon Dam and the Elwha Dam on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula are also possible candidates for removal. They block five species of salmon -- the Chinook, the pink, sockeye, chum and coho -- from spawning grounds. Observes Shawn Cantrell, director of Friends of the Earth's Northwest Rivers Project: "If the final decision is made to remove the dams, it will be a statement by our national government that past exploitation of our natural resources can be corrected. We can go back and fix the mistakes we made in previous generations...
...Vancouver, B.C., Seattle has imposed water restrictions, urging citizens to take shorter showers and banning the use of lawn sprinklers. The lush, green vegetation has begun to turn brown. Mule deer does are having trouble finding enough food in the woods to produce milk for their fawns. The spring chinook salmon run on Oregon's Rogue River had the largest die-off level in 15 years, attributed in part to low water levels. The situation is worst in Oregon, whose drought is expected to be the most severe in 120 years...
Last fall the Snake River sockeye was added to the nation's endangered- species list, and this spring the National Marine Fisheries Service is expected to take similar action on behalf of most races of Chinook. These actions pave the way for an extensive salmon-recovery plan to be put forth by the fisheries service in September that will affect not only commercial and sport fishing throughout a four-state area but also mining, farming and other industries that depend on the river and the power it generates. "There is no better barometer of the health of the Northwest than...
...salmon has generated far less rancor than the struggle between environmentalists and loggers over the northern spotted owl. In addition to its contribution to the Northwest economy -- $52 million a year in commercial fishing-related income alone -- the salmon has deep-seated symbolic value. Names of towns such as Chinook and White Salmon reflect the place of the cherished fish in the region's soul. In religious ceremonies, Native American tribes thank their Creator for the life-perpetuating salmon...
...wetlands, most of which were linked to the estuary. As freshwater is diverted into canals, the zone where freshwater and salt water meet has moved upstream, starving young staghorn sculpin that in turn were food for blue herons and snowy egrets. Roughly 90% of the state's commercial Chinook salmon catch depends on the estuary, but more than half the salmon swimming up the Sacramento River to lay eggs are blocked by the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. Those that get by are often unable to spawn in overheated waters coming from drought-stricken Shasta Lake. The San Joaquin River...