Marsh2 and her fellow board memebers elected by the people of Siskayou County are either going to be trampled by this thundering herd of swine, or will have to find a judge with the wisdom of Solomon to keep them from being overrun in my opinion!!!
Judge Hogan in the US District Court in Eugene (of all places) is the best fed judge to have on cases involving rivers & salmon. He knows the jig, the difference between "native" and hatchery bred fish (none), the TRUE reason the "preservation" movement exists, and all the rest of the game.
The effort to blow up these dams (plus many more) is almost as old as the dams themselves and we all know it has nothing to do with fish or who happens to be President. Those are, respectively, the excuses and scapegoats of today (said without intent to defend the Present Occupant in any way), but the effort predates the predicament. Pacific Power (now known as the former Enron subsidiary PacifiCorp) has been a target of progressives for decades, and the goal is to turn the company's property into a series of PUDs.
I have been around here a long time and I hail from an old salmon fishing town and yes, the fish runs have had historic ups & downs in recent (to me) years and it is NOT because of the dams or overfishing.
The facts as I believe them to be (acknowledging the possibility I'm all wet) are thus:
The phenomenon of poorly performing fish runs immediately followed the advent of the large scale salmon farming industry (and yes there were a couple giant corporations involved), and it relates to where and how (with the blessing of government) those ventures obtained their initial egg stock - by putting electrodes in the water and stealing, at spawning time, all surviving headwaters fish from all the major systems in Oregon, for three years in a row.
That'll do it, and I knew it would and said it would while it was happening. We have a couple of old (Republican) US Senators from Oregon, long since retired, to thank for it.
Now, don't take my mention of giant corporations or Republicans the wrong way. The entities had worked together for a long time and were very successful in their day keeping the area's economy strong, but facts are facts and the opportunists have taken full advantage of the unintended consequences of this glorious blunder.</rant>