I am sorry but do people not realize that dams make electricity. I am all for saving salmon and steelhead(since I make my living fishing for them) but I am not willing to pay 500.00 per month for electricity like people in California are paying. There has to be a happy medium there. The Columbia has record returns the past few years, but dams kill to many fish. Obviously those fish are making it out to sea. We cant rely on fossil fuels to create energy because the environmentalists wont let anyone open up the resourses. A lot of those earth first people might have lots of money and but the rest of us working folks dont. There is a reason why this economy has been going through a recession, lack of industrialization. They need to do more work on controlling commercial fishing out on the ocean. Those Japan fishermen have nets that are 400 miles long and can wipe out a hole run of fish. They need to spend there time and money on them. Not the working class people that actually make this country work. It is hard to repopulate fish numbers when you have indians trying to trade fish for a half rack of Budweiser. I see it all the time. Like I said I am all for saving salmon and steelhead but there are things out there that are more devastating on our fish.