Answer Quote by Cathy McMorris Rodgers

When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We…

— Derrick Jensen

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

— Stephen Ambrose

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

If the salmon and steelhead are running, then as far as I am concerned, God knows that all is well in His worldthe health…

— Tom McCall

If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens.

— Scott Adams

I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling…

— Kathleen Moore

We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best…

— Anonymous

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the…

— Bruce Babbitt

Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get…

— Charles Clover

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have…

— Matt Gonzalez

“The scariest thing is that nobody seems to be considering the impact on those wild fish of fish farming on the scale that is…

— Charles Clover

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of…

— Mike Rounds