CR: I am in agreement with you. Those who are always calling for balance seem to forget that the balance has been way out of whack for many decades. Our balance to date has resulted in the elimination of extinction of many of our wild salmon and steelhead runs.

The topic that started this thread is a good example. After building more than 12 dams on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. Our best science say the way to restore upriver runs is to bypass the four Snake River dams. Not wanting to do that we decided to mitigate the problem by greater spills in summer months. Then we renig on that deal and have to be taken to court just to get the Feds. to what they originally agreed to do. There has been damn little "balance" and the fish are the losers.

I suspect there will be only remnant runs of wild salmon and steelhead for our grandchildren. Those who preach balance today can explain the consequences of their selfishness to their grandchildren.