END GAME FOR WILD SNAKE RIVER SALMON AND STEELHEAD The Endangered Species Act is being perverted to save four costly pork-barrel dams on the lower Snake River in S.E. Washington at the expense of endangered salmon. At risk is an evolutionary heritage tens of millions of years old that since the Ice Age has uniquely adapted to infinite habitat niches nearly l,000 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. download Flyfisher Part IV Summer 2007 download Flyfisher Part III Spring 2005 download Flyfisher Part II Spring 2004 download Flyfisher Part I Winter 2004 (.pdf files: requires Adobe® Reader®) 25 Years of Failure = Threatened Extinction & A Cascade of Economic and Social Disasters Time to Resurrect the Unfulfilled Promise of the Northwest Power Act of 1980 Remarks of Ed Chaney, on the failure of governance and resultant threatened extinction of wild Snake RIver salmon and steelhead. Presented to Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority, Portland, Oregon, February 2005. download Idaho Economic Effects of Breaching/Not Breaching the Army Corps of Engineers' Snake River Dams in S.E. Washington—A Survey of the Disconnect Between Economic and Political Realities, March 2002 © NRIC The Army Corps of Engineers estimated that breaching the four lower Snake River dams would cost Idaho $32 million per year. In fact, even using the Corps' flawed numbers, breaching would produce at least $93 million per year future net benefit to Idaho. Idaho has lost an estimated $1.9 billion to date as the result of the Corps' failure to meet its obligation to mitigate for the loss of salmon and steelhead at the lower Snake River dams. download request hard copy Army Corps of Engineers Surrenders to Columbia River Pork Alliance © NRIC In February, 2002 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers surrendered unconditionally to the Columbia River Pork Alliance. The Corps officially announced that its four dams on the lower Snake River in southeastern Washington should not be breached–partially removed–to restore a free-flowing river. Instead, migrating juvenile salmon and steelhead should be removed from the river and hauled in trucks and barges hundreds of miles downstream to the Columbia River estuary for release. download 2-page essay Duping The Northwest and Nation—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Economics of Restoring Endangered Snake River Salmon, December, 2000. The Corps "cooked the books" to create the false illusion that straining juvenile Snake River salmon out of the river and barging them 400 miles to the Columbia River estuary would be economically superior to allowing the fish to migrate naturally. In fact, breaching the four lower Snake River dams would produce more than $1 billion per year in total Northwest benefits while keeping whole affected waterway shippers and irrigators. download complete report This is a 32 page report. We suggest that you download and print this pdf. You will need Adobe® Reader® to open this file. To download: right click on the "download complete report" link above and select "Save Link As..." or "Save Target As...", and save the file to your hard disk. download 4-page summary request hard copy