Northwest members of Congress who oppose removing dams to save at-risk
salmon said the Four-H Working Paper this week confirmed their belief the
federal agencies won’t pursue that option.
But citing the vagueness of the document, some were less certain about
that conclusion than others.
“The devil’s in the details, but it looks like the dams may be off the
table,” Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., said. “I may not have to chain myself
to the top of the dams after all.”
In public speeches on the
