Around 16 million wild salmon and steelhead used to return to the Columbia River Basin at the Bonneville Dam, but by the 1970s, it fell to less than 1 million, causing conservation efforts to commence. Starting with the Northwest Power Act of 1980, which required fish and wildlife goals to be considered in power generation,...

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