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I think people need to accept that this effort to help the fish is going to involve a lot of compromise. Not everybody is going to get everything they want. It is going to be hugely expensive to take these dams out and not everybody is going to ever thing the costs of getting these dams out will be distributed fairly. While it would be best for the fish to take the dams out today, this big of a project is going to take a long time to get going. Nobody has ever removed 4 dams of this size on a major river system before. This deal is a good thing, not a perfect thing, but definitely a good thing.

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