Excerpt from Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program Salmon Recovery: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations United States Senate One Hundred Fourth Congress First Session The subcommittee met at 2:05 p.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Mark O. Hatfield (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Hatfield, Gorton, Bennett, Bums, Johnston, and Murray. Also present: Senators Stevens, Baucus, Craig, Kempthome, and Murkowski. Office Of Management And Budget Statement Of Alice Rivlin, Director Accompanied By T. J. Glauthier, Associate Director For Natural Resources, Energy, And Science Statement of Hon. Mark O. Hatfield Senator Hatfield. The meeting will come to order. Today the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, the Appropriations Committee, will receive testimony from a variety of witnesses on issues relating to the Bonneville Power Administration and Columbia River basin. The importance of these interrelated topics to the Pacific Northwest cannot be overstated, and, therefore, I have invited all my Senate colleagues from the region and Alaska to participate in today's proceedings. The Columbia River is the stuff from which legends are made. The story of the Columbia is the story of the Pacific Northwest. The river's reputation has reverberated through the American mind, first as a river of unimagined natural wealth, teeming with salmon, steelhead, and other species; as a river whose bounty sustained generations of native Americans over thousands of years; and later as a river whose resources and might were harnessed by man to help build the economic and social structures of the 20th century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.