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fisheries and fishing communities, and all of our other 

 mitigation efforts will be in vain if we do not fix the dams. 



This unavoidable fact is the reason the Power Council's 

 Strategy for Salmon and the Recovery Team's recommendations are 

 both incomplete. As the Power Coun cil readily admits. 

 implementation of only existing m easures will not recover 

 endangered salmon runs, and additional measures, such as 

 reservoir drawdown, are absolutely necessary. 



Life-cycle computer modeling conducted by the Columbia Basin 

 Fish and Wildlife Authority State and Tribal Analytical Team — 

 and presented to the Recovery Teaun for their use — confirms that 

 implementation of only the measures in the Recovery Team's 

 recommendations will not recover endangered salmon runs. 



The much repeated claim that we have no science to suppozrt 

 and identify fish passage measures, to chart a path to recovery 

 of the salmon, is false. Columbia Basin salmon may well be the 

 most studied fish in the country — the volumes of historical 

 data, field studies, and monitoring results on these fish would 

 fill an entire library. 



It taJces some effort to get past the political science and 

 down to the real science in the Columbia Basin, to get past the 

 rhetoric on all sides. But the science is there if you look for 



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