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Before the roaring Columbia River began to be tamed by dams 59 years ago, it teemed with 16 million wild salmon a year as it cut a 1,930-km (1,200-mile) swath from its headwaters in British Columbia to its mouth at Astoria, Ore. Today its streams and...
But the most ferocious enemy of the fish is eight hydroelectric dams on the lower Columbia and Snake rivers that harness water behind massive walls of concrete. On their journey upstream every year, the salmon are aided by fish ladders that allow them to bypass oncoming currents. But the trip...
Saving the salmon will require a far-reaching plan to restore habitat, reduce the number of commercial fish harvests and limit the number of hatchery salmon released in the river. But the crucial element will be changing operations at the dams to increase the velocity of the waters so that...
While the Endangered Species Act has given a sense of urgency to the salmon's plight, a number of efforts have already been made to increase the runs. In 1980, Congress passed the Northwest Power Act, which required federal power authorities, who oversee the dams, to give salmon protection equal...
I already noted the plight of the loggers. Moreover, government projects like dams which would provide ecologically sound hydroelectric power have been stopped midway--after millions of taxpayer dollars had been spent--when an endangered fish species was discovered in the water. When does our solicitude for other species become...