Give A Dam For Salmon

Friday, December 07, 2007

Judge blasts latest federal salmon recovery plan

By Erik Robinson, Columbian Staff Writer

U.S. District Judge James Redden raised the possibility that, without substantial changes in favor of salmon, federal dam operators could even be held criminally or civilly liable.

New York Times - May 13, 2007

Dam's Allies Have a Change of Heart

by Felicity Barringer

LOWER GRANITE DAM, Wash. - The wheat Bryan Jones grows in Eastern Washington begins its journey to Asia on barges along the lower Snake River. The river, once a wild, muscular torrent, was made barge friendly a quarter-century ago by four of the nation's most controversial hydropower dams.

Las Vegas Sun - September 21, 2007

Left high and dry, salmon make powerful friends in Nevada

By Phoebe Sweet

The fishermen who remember salmon running thick in Northern Nevada's rivers are gone.  And what salmon they were, shimmering beauties that began and ended their lives in Nevada waters, hatching in Elko and Humboldt counties and traveling thousands of miles through Idaho and Washington and Oregon and the Pacific Ocean before returning nearly a decade later to spawn.

Idaho Statesman - September 23, 2007

One powerful voice can reshape the salmon debate

Salmon recovery is as much a political battle as it is a scientific struggle.

The politics are more highly charged than ever — perhaps to the benefit of the fish.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., wrote a letter waxing nostalgic about lost salmon runs in the northern reaches of his state — and demanding the federal government bring them back. "This may be the last chance we have to return salmon to the rivers and streams of Nevada."