More reason to torpedo four deadbeat dams on the lower Snake River has arrived in the morbid form of a quarter million downstream sockeye now either dead or dying in the mainstem Columbia River due to soupy, inhospitable water conditions.

Federal and state fisheries biologists say the warm water will wipe out at least half of this year’s anticipated return of 500,000 fish, and that 80 percent of the population could perish. Meanwhile, Oregon and Washington state have both enacted sportfishing closures, and sturgeon fishing in the Columbia upstream of Bonneville Dam has been halted. Chinook and steelhead, on the other hand, which both begin migrations later this summer, may see some reprieve, as management teams attempt to refrigerate flows by releasing cold water from selected reservoirs.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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