1.   Another, especially here in Washington state, was the controversy over a proposal to help endangered salmon by removing dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington.

2.   He continued, however, to straddle the question of whether dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington should be breached to help endangered salmon.

3.   One, for instance, is the bitter contentiousness over proposals to help endangered salmon by removing dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington.

4.   Their alternative also would discourage measures such as drawing down reservoirs and increasing river flows to help salmon.

5.   Many people believe removing them would help salmon, which can circumvent the dams via fish ladders while swimming upstream, but which have trouble coming back down.

6.   The measures could include curtailing hydroelectric programs that help salmon.