Big chinook run doesn't let Columbia dams off the hook, activists say
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 01:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Salmon counters at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River are seeing the biggest chinook run since 1938, but environmentalists still worry.BONNEVILLE DAM, Wash. — The tiny fish-counting station, with its window onto the Columbia River, was darkened so the migrating salmon would not be spooked. And it was silent — until the shimmering bodies began to flicker by.