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...Energy Regulatory Commission paid little or no attention to environmental issues as it relicensed dams. Now it is faced with a record number of relicensing applications -- 230 dams on 59 river basins -- and is using this unique opportunity to respond to pent-up ecological concerns, particularly the needs of fish. Many of the dams up for relicensing will be required to take costly steps to help fish reach their spawning grounds and then return. That could mean ladders, lifts, pathways or "trap-and-truck" measures, in which truckloads of fish are ferried around the dam and released...
...dams could face a more radical solution. The modest-size Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, produces electricity but prevents many fish, including salmon and shad, from reaching their spawning grounds. Audubon and Trout Unlimited have called for the dam's removal. So too has the state's Governor, John McKernan Jr.Studies of the proposal and the potential legal brawls could take years, but even the thought of tearing down a dam for ecological reasons is highly unusual...
...spring system is home to 65 species found nowhere else on earth. Among them: the fountain darter, the Texas blind salamander and Texas wild rice. Falling water levels in the aquifer, caused by unregulated and excessive usage, threatened the species, and in 1991 the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, forcing it to take action...
...Edwards Aquifer. The state will now devise a plan for equitable water distribution that will enable the springs to flow even in times of drought, while protecting the delicate ecosystem that provides that water. "This is a spectacular success," says Babbitt, "a really remarkable evolution in which a small fish facing extinction triggered a lawsuit, which triggered a legislative response that is now going to work for the benefit of everybody in Texas...
...jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower and see the Willamette River and Mount Hood in the distance. Their mission was simplified in the slogans that often flitted across their computer terminals. One message read, "It's the fish, stupid!" Another, "It's the ecosystem, stupid!" And finally, "It's all of them, stupid...