Letter to the Editor; Would removing dams be worth it?

To the Editor:

The railroads have announced they can haul grain in 110-car-unit trains for less money per ton than barges on the Snake River can transport it. Almost immediately, the fish people want to tear out the Snake River dams.

They say they want to restore the salmon and steelhead runs to what they used to be. How in the world were they able to count the fish before the dams were in place? There were a lot of fishermen in the Washtucna and Kahlotus areas that fished the Snake River and in the Lyons Ferry area that spent a lot of time fishing. They caught a great variety of fish, but not...