In response to the release of two major federal reports on salmon recovery
options, two Northwest senators said they plan to hold hearings next year
and seek a regional consensus.
But one of them, Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, questioned the science used
by federal agencies to develop their "All-H Paper" on salmon recovery options
and the apparently inconsistent positions on dam removal among their scientists.
"I seriously question the science they have used," Crapo, who chairs
the fisheries,

 
EDITORS NOTE: On a regular basis the CBB will be interviewing key participants
in efforts to protect and restore Columbia River Basin fish and wildlife
populations.
 
Fish and wildlife managers need to stop bickering and unify their stand
as they embark on the monumental task of subbasin planning, says Gary James,
new chairman of the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authoritys Anadromous
Fish Managers Caucus.
CBFWA is a consortium of 13 basin tribes, the four state fish ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service has reached a fork in the road
as it prepares a biological assessment of alternatives for Lower Snake
River hydrosystem configuration.
And it appears at first blush that NMFS should follow the road its own
scientists are building rather than one created by PATH, according to a
panel of scientists.
The Independent Scientific Advisory Board was called on this summer
to review the analytical methods on which NMFS based its draft Anadromous
Fish Appendix

Two Northwest senators, adamant and inflexible opponents of dam breaching,
assured irrigators Nov. 23 that they will make a stand together against
any national affront to the magnificent and prosperous society that hydropower
has created in the Columbia Basin.
Flexing their political muscle, Sens. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., and Gordon
Smith, R-Ore., said any authorization for dam removal would have to first
get through subcommittees they chair.
To take them (dams) out, they gotta take us ...