Judge Rules Plan Falls Short For Salmon On Columbia And Snake Rivers

U.S. District Court Judge James Redden has once again rejected the federal government's plan to operate hydropower dams in the Columbia River basin without jeopardizing salmon.

The decision sends the exhaustive plan back to federal agencies for a redo for the third time, with a focus on habitat improvement after 2013. The current plan stays in place until 2013, the judge said.

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The Columbia

A historic look at the harnessing of the Columbia River and its tributaries. Woody Guthrie was hired by Bonneville Power Association in 1941 to write the songs for this movie but production was delayed by World War II. Finished in 1949, this film contains rare footage of Grand Coulee Dam construction, Indian fishing at Celilo Falls and the 1948 Vanport flood.

I wonder if they scoop the fish up when they're done?

Crews, working under contract for the US Army Corps of Engineers, are using explosives to remove basalt rock from the bottom of the Columbia River near St. Helens, Oregon.