Northwest salmon recovery plan may include breaching dams
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 23:21
in Biology & Nature
In a case closely followed by environmental and business interests, a rewritten plan for restoring endangered and threatened wild salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers in Washington state and Idaho includes studying the possibility of breaching four major hydroelectric dams if other steps don't reverse the decline.
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