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Surprise! Disagreement on new plan for dams, salmon

In full froth: Heavy spring runoff waters boil and churn as they pass through the spillways at Bonneville Dam near Cascade Locks, Ore., on Friday. (Associated Press)

USFWS releases new plan for NW dams to save salmon

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service is again opposing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan to increase releases of water from eight dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers to help salmon make the trek to the Pacific Ocean because the agency disagrees with the goal of the plan and the basic science on which it is premised.
—Idaho Statesman

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