Word: steelheads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, the commission ruled out Nez Perce because it would have killed more migrating Chinook salmon and steelhead fish than the High Mountain Sheep Dam. Some 200,000 fishermen and conservationists in the Northwest are already alarmed at the toll that such great dams in the Columbia River Basin as Bonneville and Grand Coulee are exacting on the $12 million-a-year salmon business. Second, the five Kennedy-appointed commissioners unanimously knocked down the Government's dam-building bid on the grounds that Pacific Northwest could do everything the Government proposed to do, and faster. And finally...