INTRODUCTION: THE NATURE OF THE GREAT SALMON HOAX
CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND FACTS ABOUT COLUMBIA BASIN SALMON
“Stream-Type” Salmon, Including Endangered Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon
“Ocean-Type” Salmon, Including Endangered Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon
Sockeye Salmon, and the Endangered Snake River Sockeye Salmon
CHAPTER 2: OVERFISHING AND SALMON POPULATIONS
The Rise of Salmon Harvest in the Columbia Basin
Smarter, Faster, More Efficient Fishermen
The Environmentalist/Harvester Alliance
The Rise of Northwest Ocean Harvest
The Worldwide Problem of Overfishing
The Failure of Government Regulation of Salmon Harvest
CHAPTER 3: NATURAL FACTORS KILLING SALMON
A Warmer Climate Depresses Salmon Populations
The Rise of Salmon Predators and Parasites
CHAPTER 4: THE RISE OF DAMS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SALMON
The Mainstem Dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers
Storage Dams Impassable to Salmon
Effects of Irrigation on Salmon
Assessing the Effect of Dams by Comparing Dammed and Undammed Rivers
The Historical Coincidences that Support Attacks on the Dams
"Across the Concrete Mortality" in Mainstem Dams
The Question of Natural Mortality
Unraveling the 95% Mortality Hoax
Government Efforts to Avoid Disclosure of the True Impacts of Dams on Salmon
CHAPTER 5: THE ATTACK ON SMOLT TRANSPORTATION
Measuring the Effects of Transporting Juvenile Fish
Torturing the Data Until It Confesses: The Anti-Transportation Review Groups
The Legal Attack on Transportation
NEPA: Considering Alternatives in Environmental Decisionmaking
CHAPTER 6: THE HATCHERY MACHINE AND ITS POTENTIAL
The Early Promise of Hatcheries
The "Soft Underbelly" of Hatchery Mismanagement: Bad Breeding Techniques
The Effectiveness and Costs of Hatcheries
The Wild v. Hatchery Choice: How Much Diversity Do We Really Need?
A Breeder’s Approach to Hatcheries
CHAPTER 7: THE RISE OF THE FLOW THEORISTS AND THE FALL OF SCIENCE
Biological Science, Politicized Science, and Government
The Political Science of Conservation Biology
The Impact of Dams on Natural Flows
The Birth of the Flow/Survival Hypothesis
Testing the Idea that Flow Augmentation Increases Salmon Survival
How Much Do Dams Slow Down Juvenile Salmon?
The Flow/Travel Time/Survival Hypothesis
Avoiding Reservoir Mortality By Reducing Travel Time May Not Help Salmon at All
Adverse Effects of Flow Augmentation on Adults
Flow Theory and the Northwest Power Planning Council
How the Church of Flow Deals with Heretics
Flow Theorists Take Over the National Marine Fisheries Service
CHAPTER 8: THE PUSH FOR DAM REMOVAL OR "NATURAL RIVER DRAWDOWN"
Governor Andrus Gives Snake River Drawdown a Boost
The Northwest Power Planning Council's First Step Towards Drawdown
Benefits to Salmon from Destroying the Reservoir Ecosystems
The Northwest Power Planning Council’s Second Try, the "Normative River"
CHAPTER 9: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AGAINST THE DAMS
The First Shot from the Environmentalists and their Backers: the Commercial Salmon Harvesters
Our First Attempt to Get Salmon Bureaucrats to Look Beyond the Dams
How Administrative Law Destroys Justice in Suits Against the Government
Closing the Courthouse Door to Wise Use of Natural Resources: Judge-Made Standing Doctrine
Misuse of the Mootness Doctrine
The Pacific Northwest Power Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act
CHAPTER 10: LAWLESSNESS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SALMON HARVEST
Impacts of Continuing Commercial Harvest of Endangered Columbia Basin Salmon
Ignoring the Plain Language of the Endangered Species Act to Protect Salmon Harvest
Fishing Without Permits: Mootness Strikes Again
Jim Ramsey's Attack on the Gillnetters: the Promise of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
CHAPTER 11: THE OROFINO COMMUNITY'S STRUGGLE OVER DWORSHAK DAM
Fish Kills in the Steelhead Capital of the World
The Orofino Community Seeks Legal Protection
The Fate of the First Orofino Lawsuit: Mootness Strikes Again
How Judge Lodge Ignored the Facts to Deny Any Relief to Orofino
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Press Machine
Judge Lodge Declares that the Corps Can Nullify the Purposes for Which Dworshak Was Constructed
CHAPTER 12: THE FIGHT FOR MORE SPILL AT HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS
The Superficial Appeal of Spill
Fish Passage Efficiency and Fish Survival
CHAPTER 13: WHY FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN SALMON REGULATION IS NECESSARY
The Fishery Agencies’ Fundamental Conflict of Interest in Salmon Preservation
Defining “Mitigation” for Hydropower Operations
Special Obligations Owed to Native Americans
The Lack of Fiscal Management in Existing Salmon Recovery Programs
The Proliferation of Useless Committees and the Death of the Federal Advisory Committee Act
CHAPTER 14: A SENSIBLE APPROACH TO SALMON RECOVERY
Reintroducing Economic Considerations to Maximize the Benefits of Salmon Recovery Resources
Decentralizing Management of Salmon Habitat
Moving Toward River-Based Harvest Management and Sustainable Salmon Harvest
Redefining a Role for Hatcheries
What Improvements Remain for Mainstem Passage?
CHAPTER 15: ORGANIZING TO DEFEND COMMON SENSE IN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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