Shred the Roadmap to Salmon Extinction (Bruce Babbitt on Bush plan)

[papau]

Bruce Babbitt: A Costly Roadmap to Salmon Extinction

Wild salmon are drifting toward extinction in the northern Rocky
Mountains. Last month, the Bush administration delivered a
decision that will be the death blow, if it stands.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-babbitt30dec30,1,3992230.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

Shred the Roadmap to Salmon Extinction


By Bruce Babbitt, Bruce Babbitt was secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001. He is a former governor and attorney general of Arizona.


Wild salmon are drifting toward extinction in the northern Rocky Mountains. Last month, the Bush administration delivered a decision that will be the death blow, if it stands: four obsolete dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington state will not be dismantled.

The Snake River dams were conceived on a field of industrial dreams. The idea took root in the 1960s, when local boosters persuaded Congress to authorize a huge project to transform Lewiston, Idaho, 400 miles from the Pacific, into a seaport.

The Army Corps of Engineers then proceeded to subdue 140 miles of the wild Snake, remaking it into a slack-water barge channel.
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[GregD]

1. link fails

ok, here it is
http://tinyurl.com/5hbgg

[papau]

2. Thanks - - glad you fixed it! I fixed it also in main post

:-)

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[maxsolomon]

4. the dams will never be removed in time to save the runs

pointless as they are, they're here to stay. the federal government moves too slow, even with a democrat in the white house.

sad thing is, this is the planet's future we're ignoring.

[maduroftime]

5. These dams need to be destroyed

I would love to see the salmon populations re-vitalized in the NW.