OTHER
SALMON MATERIALS
News
from the Front: an irregularly-published collection of essays on current
topics in salmon recovery
- Issue #95: How Government Destroyed Science in Columbia River Dam Decisionmaking (January 31, 2009)
- Issue #94: Federal Courts Ensure Junk Science
Governs Salmon Harvest Decisions (June 16, 2008)
- Issue #93: Looters Limit Out on BPA Salmon Funds
(April 22, 2008)
- Issue #92: Sportsfishing Interests Face Ten More
Years in the Wilderness (January 23, 2008)
- Issue #91: A New Cloud Over the Klamath Basin
(January 17, 2008)
- Issue #90: What if Columbia
and Snake River Dams Were Helping Salmon?
(November 7, 2007)
- Issue #89: Halloween Special: Draft Biological Opinion on Columbia and Snake River
Dam Operations Is All Tricks and No Treats (October 31, 2007)
- Issue
#88: Ocean Radio-Tracking Data Suggest No Harm to Fish
Populations from Snake Dams and Large Benefits to Smolt Transportation
(January 22, 2007)
- Issue
#87: Why Pombo's ESA Reform Bill is a Step Backwards (September
23, 2005)
- Issue
#86: The Path to Self-Sufficiency in the Klamath Basin
(September 22, 2005)
- Issue
#85: Whither Public Power? (September 6, 2005)
- Issue
#84: Penned and Poisoned in the Redden Corral (July 1, 2005)
- Issue
#83: The Great Summer Spill Hoax (June 12, 2005)
- Issue
#82: Cutting Off Irrigators Again (April 8, 2005)
- Issue
#81: Has Salmon Science Become a Cargo Cult? An Address to
the Oregon
Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (February 16, 2005)
- Issue
#80: Lying Leftist Lunatics Loot Oregon Ratepayers, Vol. 2 (February 1,
2005)
- Issue
#79: Dear John: An Open Letter to the Tribes (January 17,
2005)
- Issue
#78: Lying Leftist Lunatics Loot Oregon Ratepayers (January 11, 2005)
- Issue
#77: Junk Science and Dams: Lies About Smolt
Transportation (January 10, 2005)
- Issue
#76: Region Fiddles as Dam Burners Advance (January 3, 2005)
- Issue
#75: Democrats Poised to Seize Water (and Power) in Washington
(December 27, 2004)
- Issue
#74: Halloween Special: General Ripper Takes Over Seattle
and BPA (October 31, 2003)
- Issue
#73: A Ray of Hope for the Klamath Farmers (September 5, 2003)
- Issue
#72: April Follies, or, After Iraq, Let’s Bomb BPA, NMFS and
the Northwest Power Planning Council (May 6, 2003)
- Issue
#71: A Case Study in the Cross-Examination of Eco-Liars (March
5, 2003)
- Issue
#70: Salmon Heresy (February 19, 2003)
- Issue
#69: NEPA Is Wounded in the House of Its Guardians
(December 16, 2002)
- Issue
#68: Strike Against BPA! (October 24, 2002)
- Issue
#67: NMFS Releases Anti-Hatchery, Anti-Law Policy (August 6,
2002)
- Issue
#66: Suckers for Junk Science? Bush Administration Defends
Sucker Listings (May 16, 2002)
- Issue
#65: What Does It Take To Win the War On The West? (April 14,
2002)
- Issue
#64: More Nails in the Coffin of the Rule of Law (April 4, 2002)
- Issue
#63: New York Times Takes The Lead In Promoting The Great
Salmon Hoax (February 14, 2002)
- Issue
#62: Senators Offer Soviet-Style Central Planning for the Klamath Basin (December 26, 2001)
- Issue
#61: Did the Dams Slaughter Salmon This Spring? Proof Is
Lacking (December 26, 2001)
- Issue
#60: Christmas
Speech: The Scribes and the Pharisees of Oregon (December 6, 2001)
- Issue
#59: NMFS Official Admits Bogus Analyses (November 19, 2001)
- Issue
#58: Is the Fix
In? Extreme Environmentalists To Provide "Scientific Peer
Review" Justifying Klamath Abuses (October 27, 2001)
- Issue
#57: Environmentalists,
Terrorists, Patriotism and the War Against America:
A Speech to the Kitsap Alliance
of Property Owners (October 6, 2001)
- Issue
#56: Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association Petitions for
Delisting of Columbia
Salmon and Steelhead (September 28, 2001)
- Issue
#55: Judge Hogan
Hits A Homer: Oregon
Coastal Coho Listing Is Unlawful (September 14, 2001)
- Issue
#54: Speech at the Klamath
Falls Headgates: The Revolution Starts Here
(August 7, 2001)
- Issue
#53: Preparing the Way for Mass Action in the Klamath Basin
(July 9, 2001)
- Issue
#52: Independence Day Issue: A Blow for Liberty at the Klamath Project
(July 4, 2001)
- Issue
#51: D.C. to Klamath Farmers: Drop Dead (June 20, 2000)
- Issue
#50: BPA Kisses Up to Kitz, Wastes 300 Megawatt-Months of
Power on Spill (May 17, 2001)
- Issue
#49: Judge Aiken to Klamath Irrigators: Drop Dead (May 4,
2000)
- Issue
#48: A Speech for the May 7th Klamath Project Rally: The
God Squad Is Your Best Hope (April 24, 2001)
- Issue
#47: What the Klamath Project Farmers Should Do, and Why (April
16, 2001)
- Issue
#46: NMFS Hypocrites Rubber-Stamp Sharp Harvest Increase on
"Endangered" Salmon (March 29, 2001)
- Issue
#45: New Lows for the Northwest Power Planning Council (March
14, 2001)
- Issue
#44: States and Feds Handing Spring Chinook Run to Tribes,
Leaving Only Crumbs for Sportsmen (March 9, 2001)
- Issue
#43: The Decline of Law Continues: Court Attacks
Decisionmaking on Snake River
Dams (February 19,
2001)
- Issue
#42: Rally Against Shorelines Guidelines (February 7, 2001)
- Issue
#41: Memo for Gale Norton: Cutting the Gordian Knot of Northwest
Natural Resource Management (January 11, 2001)
- Issue
#40: The Environmentalist Energy Crisis (January 5, 2001)
- Issue
#39: Washington
Initiative 713 Outlaws Gillnets (December 15, 2000)
- Issue
#38: Sixty Minutes, Goebbels, and the Snake
River Dams (November 30, 2000)
- Issue #37:
Speech to the Kitsap Waterfront & Streamside Owners Association:
Winning the Battle
Against the Dark Forces (October 26, 2000)
- Issue
#36: Why I Fear for America
If Gore Is Elected (October 20, 2000)
- Issue
#35: Speech to the Oregon
Public Power Association: the Moral Responsibilities of Public Power
(October 12, 2000)
- Issue
#34: Killing Endangered Suckers to Save Them: The
Continuing Collapse of Law (October 3, 2000)
- Issue
#33: Gore Campaign Memo Promises to Breach Dams--or Does It?
(September 23, 2000)
- Issue
#32: TEMPORARILY WITHDRAWN (September 15, 2000)
- Issue
#31: The Downward Spiral Continues: Governors Demand
Back-to-Nature Salmon Plan and Council Obliges (September 7, 2000)
- Issue
#30: Lunatics Demand that BPA Spend $70 Million to Save a
Handful of Salmon, BPA Obliges (August 31, 2000)
- Issue
#29: The Downward Spiral Continues: NMFS Releases Draft
Biological Opinion on Columbia
Basin Water Projects
(August 7, 2000)
- Older
Issues
Information
about the PATH process (the federal/state/tribal Plan for Analyzing
and Testing Hypotheses).
- Questions
submitted to PATH (and never answered)
- A list
of critical defects in PATH
- An Excel 97
Spreadsheet showing science-based survival estimates vs. PATH
estimates
- Letter
to the Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission on PATH assumptions (April
23, 1999)
Information
about the forthcoming Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on dam removal
- Questions
for the National Marine Fisheries Service on its April 14, 1999
"Assessment of Lower Snake River
Hydrosystem Alternatives on Survival and Recovery of Snake River
Salmonids" (a/k/a the "A-fish Appendix" to the EIS)
Information
about the Columbia
Basin Forum, Framework,
and Northwest Power Planning Council fish and wildlife planning processes
- An analysis of why it is
unlawful for BPA to exploit its monopoly in the transmission of
electricity to tax transmission users for fish costs.
- An analysis of how the
Council has violated the Act that requires electric ratepayers to pay only
for electricity-related fish and wildlife losses
- An Open
Letter critical of the Council/Forum's "Framework Process"
Information
about Savage Rapids Dam and the Grants Pass Irrigation District
- A memorandum
summarizing the lack of sound science supporting NMFS'
"dambusting" efforts
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