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Save Our Salmon, Save Our Soul
Hathorn, C. | January 6, 1992 issue

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If the Pacific Northwest has any soul, it rests in a strong, tasty and bug-eyed fish, the salmon. For Native Americans, salmon represents both food and religion. But the Northwest has sold this soul for cheap power. The Columbia River system, the biggest salmon freeway in the Lower 48-is stitched with hydroelectric dams that produce the country's cheapest power, 40 percent cheaper than the national average. A debate is now raging over protecting the salmon. Yet the issue isn't about fish or power, it's about fish and power. Even environmentalists like low electric bills. The federal government has entered the fish-saving business, though its resolve is dubious.

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SALMON; FISHES; AQUATIC animals; FEDERAL regulation; WATER-power; POWER resources; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; UNITED States
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