And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
There seems to be more and more interest in breaching dams and more
and more information that indcates that there is more loss than gain from
dams in general.
Dams have recently been blamed for causing earthquakes due to the
massive weight of the water that is held behind them.
<http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/STATE/Tribe_Breaching.html>
Tribe calls for removal of four Snake River dams
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) - The Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee has passed
a resolution stating its support for breaching the four lower Snake River
dams to save salmon and steelhead runs.
This marks the first time the tribe has taken an official stance on
breaching, although in 1996, the tribe, along with the Umatilla, Warm
Springs and Yakama tribes, called for breaching the dams in a joint
anadromous fish restoration plan.
"There is an existing and growing recognition among experts that minor
changes and adjustments in the system are not going to result in any
significant change in the pattern we have seen over the past 40 years and
that the return of natural flows will be the most effective step,"
committee Chairman Samuel N. Penney said in a prepared statement.
The tribe cited the PATH report, a recent study by scientists that
concludes the fish have a much better chance of recovery without the dams,
and a statement last year by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission that called
a natural river option the best biological choice for fish recovery, as
playing a part in its decision.
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