Here is my take on the Dam removal. I completely support the need to help the endangered salmon runs. I think it is a very important thing. We have had dams on our northwest rivers for many decades now, with the salmon runs declining only in the last few. Here in the northwest, we enjoy cheaper electric rates, thanks to the dams. It will cost many millions of dollars to remove the dams, and affect millions of people through higher electric rates. Once this is done, we will never go back to dams again. It makes sense to me to TRY banning nets first. It will only effect a few hundred people or a couple thousand at most. We could even subsidize them for awhile at a whole lot less then removing dams, until we see the impact of this option. If there is no impact on the salmon runs, then, we can spend the millions of dollars on removing dams, just my .02