1.   But what seems clear is that the salmon cannot be saved without breaching.

2.   Dam-breaching is on the table because other efforts to save the salmon have failed.

3.   He is not reticent to voice opinions on such subjects as plans to save Columbia River salmon.

4.   He set out to convince his Washington overseers that Bonneville needed leeway on power prices and help controlling the costs of saving the salmon.

5.   He was long its president and continues to spur the effort to save the salmon from inexcusable exploitation and neglect.

6.   In the end, the decision will probably boil down to how important Americans think it is to save the salmon.

7.   Karr sees the current rhetoric about saving salmon as beside the point.

8.   Still, dam critics say the dams are by far the greatest problem, insisting that no amount of human tinkering can save salmon from human blockades.

9.   The vote to do more to save salmon in the wild comes while hatchery-bred salmon are abundant.

10.   There is not even a consensus on what one should do to save endangered salmon.