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Good morning. Chairman Studds and members of the Committee. 

 Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the subject of 

 salmon recovery in the Columbia Basin. 



My name is Lorraine Bodi and I am co-director of the 

 Northwest office of American Rivers, a national conservation 

 group dedicated to the protection of river ecosystems. In the 

 Pacific Northwest, American Rivers focuses on restoration of our 

 depleted salmon runs. I am also chair of Save Our Wild Salmon 

 (SOS) , a coalition of forty-two national, regional, and local 

 conservation and fishing groups and salmon-based businesses 

 working together to restore endangered salmon runs to harvestable 

 levels. 



My personal involvement in Northwest salmon issues dates 

 back over fifteen years. For thirteen of those years, I 

 represented the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in its 

 efforts to protect salmon habitat. In the late 1970s, I worked 

 on the first review of Columbia Basin salmon under the Endangered 

 Species Act. In 1980, I was a member of the "ad hoc work group" 

 of fishery and utility interests, a group that drafted the fish 

 and wildlife provisions adopted as part of the Northwest Power 

 Act. 



