Protecting Salmon Strongholds

Along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts we have decimated most of our salmon populations with dams, pollution, disease, and mines.  The evidence is there showing the negative effects of all of these practices yet we continue to gamble with a keystone species habitat for gas and oil.  Tell me how risking an entire ecosystem and Native American way of life that’s been around for thousands of years makes any sense.  All for the rich to get richer while leaving the Natives and locals with less resources.