I have spent a lot of time persuing the issue of dam breaching, having attended meetings talked to WDFW,farmers,chamber of commerce,boilogists,and elected officials about the subject.It takes a lot of time to wade through the b.s to get to the bottom line.I discovered who was really behind this. It is the enviromentlists. B.P.A. has them, WDFW has them Gore types. Their agenda is to have a free flowing river. The salmon issue is a smoke screeen to remove the dams, belive it or not. The dam I would support removing would be the John Day, seventy eight miles of slack water, a real killer. The Corps have spent millions on bypass fishscreens and barging and have had fantastic results. Actually, smolt mortality could be higher with a free flowing stream. It's more of a habitat, predator, and harvest problem than passage. However, they ignore this. Yes, the runs are down everywhere, even rivers without dams. Environmentalists are shutting down summer programs in the Puget Sound and elsewhere. I heard this four years ago. They would like to go to a few select hatcheries in the state and the rest of the rivers managed for wild runs. NMFS mandated to the state to cut back on smolt plants. The FEDS cut back on Mitchell money. There are reasons why the WDFW has wanted to change regulations on Oly. Pen. but they won't tell you exactly why. I bet it has something to do with allocation and Indians. Greed. It seems the salmon are getting all the attention and steelhead are forgotten. A good book to read is The Great Salmon Hoax by James Buchal. Keep hammering on them, let them know you're intelligent and can think. Read between the lines, add the facts, and confront them on discrepancies. eventually they will tell you the truth and will work with you. It's a fight, but one we have to win to continue fishing.