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Comments on the risk of extinction of salmon species in the Columbia and Snake River basins due to the rejection of a recovery plan devised by the administration of Bill Clinton by a federal judge who found its recommendations too speculative and ordered the administration of President George W. Bush to draw a better one.

Reports that the Bush administration has ruled out the possibility of removing federal dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers to protect the 11 endangered species of salmon and steelhead. Opinion which came from the fisheries division of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration which declared that the eight large dams on the lower stretch of the two rivers were an immutable part of the salmon's environment; Suggestion of other protection options; How the decision differs from the policies of Bill Clinton's administration; Angry reaction from environmentalists and Native Americans.