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The tribe filed suit under the Endangered Species Act because they say the wall is harming three species of endangered fish, including Chinook salmon. A judge ruled in favor of the tribe Friday, after visiting the dam site.

Breaching the Snake River dams is one major way to protect salmon. That’s according to a federal report from NOAA Fisheries on salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin that came out Friday.

The benefits provided by four giant hydroelectric dams on the Snake River must be replaced before the dams can be breached to save endangered salmon runs. That's according to a report issued Thursday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Washington U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, both Democrats.

A new report says the benefits provided by four giant hydroelectric dams on the lower Snake River can be replaced if the dams are breached to save endangered salmon runs. But the report says finding other ways to provide electricity, irrigation and barge service would cost between $10.3 billion and $27.2 billion.

Four members of U.S. Congress toured Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River near Pasco, Washington.

Washington state's top Democrats have come out against a proposal from U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, to remove four hydroelectric dams on the Snake…