With all this talk about the Snake river dams I was just wondering if anyone had any information on the progress otf trying to get the Elwa river dams removed? Is it a dead horse like the snake river dams appear to be? Or are they just waiting for Slade Gorten to appropriate the cash?
I was just thinking as it really doesn't look like the snake river dams will be coming out any time soon that the elwa could act as an "experimental" river. Remove these dams and see how fast fish recovery, if any, occurs. What problems backed up sediments will have for the river and how long it takes the river to "clean" itself up. It seems to me that this river would be ideal as apparently the dams are no longer useful and removal would have a small affect on the people who live there (vs the people who live around the snake river).
Possibly, in the long run information from here can be used to justify removal of other dams such as the snake river dams. Who knows maybe it will show us that dam removal is not the best option. We need to start somewhere!

duke