11.   If they do, the government is betting that the stocks will not become extinct in the six to eight years it would take to remove the dams.

12.   Now, the solution seems to lie in removing the dam, McEwan said.

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

14.   PacifiCorps reluctantly signed the agreement to remove the dam, saying the alternative was costly litigation.

15.   Republican George W. Bush, who opposes removing the dams, criticized Democrat Al Gore for not taking a position.

16.   Residents liked the freeflowing river, and so did state environmental officials, who are trying to remove dams that prevent fish from swimming upstream.

17.   The cheapest method entails removing the dam in stages, letting the sediment move with the natural creek flow.

18.   The Interior Department and an earlier Congress had endorsed removing the dams on the Elwha River to restore salmon.

19.   The National Park Service has recommended that the dams be removed to restore fish runs on the Elwha.

20.   The words Gorton attribute to Gore actually are those of an environmental group that openly supports removing the dams.