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Article: Dams to Remain While Other Efforts Are Made to Replenish Salmon in Northwest.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- July 28, 2000
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Jul. 28--Four federal hydropower dams on the Lower Snake River will stay in place for at least eight years while other measures are taken to bolster salmon stocks, a White House official told Northwest and tribal leaders Thursday.
But if salmon populations throughout the Columbia River Basin do not begin recovering during that time, an order to breach the dams could result, said George Frampton, acting chairman of the White House Council for Environmental Quality.
The directive, while expected, comes after more than five wrenching years of regional division over whether the nation's most sophisticated hydropower system should be partially dismantled for ...