A new element in the anti-dam argument

The debate over the Snake River dams has raged for years. To breach or not to breach has been the question swirling around them. Corrective moves to help save the salmon and steelhead runs and court action have marked the story.

An article in a recent Lewiston Tribune has brought the debate back to the surface, and poor fish runs have renewed calls for breaching the dams.

Despite evidence that many factors contribute to declining runs, the dams remain the center point of the argument.

The advocates of breaching the dams do not equivocate. The only answer to saving the fish runs is eliminating...