61.   The dwindling salmon runs are throughout the Northwest, from Ozette Lake on the Olympic Peninsula to the Columbia, Snake and Willamette rivers.

62.   The gillnetters have seen their livelihood vanish along with the Columbia River salmon runs.

63.   The Hanford Reach is the last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River and home to the most productive salmon run remaining in the United States outside Alaska.

64.   The Hanford Reach is the spawning ground of the last great wild salmon runs of the Columbia River.

65.   The issue has attracted new attention in the past year as the U.S. has moved to protect threatened and endangered salmon runs.

66.   The hearing came as debate intensified over White House efforts to preserve salmon runs under the Endangered Species Act.

67.   The plan comes at a key point in efforts to preserve and restore once-great salmon runs of the Columbia River.

68.   The projects range from providing winter range for elk and bison to restoring salmon runs in Washington to saving ancient redwoods in California.

69.   The proposal, along with fears that tailings would poison salmon runs, set off massive protests.

70.   The Sacramento fall run is the largest of four salmon runs in the San Francisco Bay, and perhaps the largest on the West Coast, excluding Alaska.