Bush Salmon Protection Plan Under Fire In Courts

BURBANK, WASHINGTON - JUNE 6: Ice Harbor Lock and Dam on the lower Snake River is seen June 6, 2005 near Burbank, Washington. In late May 2005, a federal judge in Portland, Oregon rejected the Bush administration's $6 billion plan to improve dams on the lower Snake River and Columbia River ruling it failed to protect threatened and endangered salmon under the Endangered Species Act. Ice Harbor is one of four dams on the lower Snake River that environmentalists and others want to see breached in an effort to restore the dwindling salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest. (Photo by Jeff T. Green/Getty Images)