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Summary: For or Against Dam Breaching
Review: The reviews on the book appear to be a reading of the 'for or against' comments that are appearing all over the country on the very serious matter of 'dam breaching'.This is NOT a 'dam breaching' issue. This is a save our salmon issue. To save Northwest salmon, four large obstacles must be removed...and they aren't dams. Read all of the reviews on this book. Purchase this book and also purchase 'Undue Influence" by Ron Arnold to put everything in perspective.
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Summary: A book with a concealed message
Review: The vast majority of the conservative, rural, and farming community are delighted with this book. They don't seem to have noticed that Mr. Buchal's final recommendations are for the radical restructuring of government. --- You will find his solutions in his chapters 14 and 15 which are fairly light on the more technical aspects.--- Specifically, he wants power over salmon recovery concentrated into the hands of a single individual and for all citizens to organize themselves into special interest groups and to gain a place at the table. This is essentially the structure of the Clinton's reinvention of government, based on group processes, which has emerged in Washington State in the three years following this book's publication. Mr. Buchal appears to have been aware of that plan and to have approved of it. But, his recommendations are well obscured by the extensive review of scientific information which tells the conservative and rural community what they want to hear. Thus, they come to be the backers of a liberal political agenda. --- One wonders if that was not the author's intention.
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Summary: A must for everyone who cars about our Salmon.
Review: This book is something every person concerned with the plight of salmon should read. Not only is it very correct in finding the fault with our political system but it backs up every quote, statement or fact with an extensive list of references. Its amazing to me how not one person has seemed to point the reason for salmon's decreasing population on overfishing. Even when salmon was placed on the endangered species list, the total fishing harvest of salmon went up. BY ALL MEANS, READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: A must for everyone who cars about our Salmon.
Review: This book is something every person concerned with the plight of salmon should read. Not only is it very correct in finding the fault with our political system but it backs up every quote, statement or fact with an extensive list of references. Its amazing to me how not one person has seemed to point the reason for salmon's decreasing population on overfishing. Even when salmon was placed on the endangered species list, the total fishing harvest of salmon went up. BY ALL MEANS, READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Terrible lies!!!
Review: This book unsuccessfully attempts to discredit leading scientists and studies that have linked the decline of salmon to the interests that the author represents. Don't waste your time with this pseudo-intellectual nonsense.
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Summary: Eye opener of the real reasons salmon are on decline
Review: This book was amazing. I had to read it for a class at school, and it completely changed my mind about dams. The author spent 4 years collecting data from scientific reports about why dams are not the cause of fish mortality. The few times that they are the cause, it's because the "opposition" has not allowed them to install better devices on the dams. This book gives insight into the polotics that are preventing dams from improveing, and actually makes you want to slap environmentalists for the way they have been reacting about dams...lol...and I am an envirionmentalist. He presents data from "the other side" and diggs up the sources that are often very sketchy sources and unscientific. Buchal also shows how if dams are removed...fish won't improve untill something is done about other vital salmon issues. I wrote an 11 page paper on this book easily, and could have written more. If you want to understand where the dam people are comming from and why they are so bitter when dealing with environmentalist, this is also dealt with. Even if you disagree with his ideas, it is a must have in understanding both sides of the salmon controversy. Boy would I like to see an environmental group refute his arguements.
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