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Science 10 December 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5447, p. 2053
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5447.2053b
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Conservation groups are anxiously waiting to see if President Bill Clinton takes them up on their call for a special review of the science behind federal plans to save endangered Pacific salmon. American Rivers and 16 other groups wrote to Clinton last month urging him to organize a "summit to address serious errors in the science now being employed by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)," the U.S. agency charged with saving dozens of declining runs in the Pacific Northwest. The groups charge that the agency's analyses underestimate the risk of extinction and downplay the benefits of a controversial proposal to remove four dams that block the Snake River (Science, 23 April, p. 574).

Judging by the noises coming from NMFS, a summit is unlikely: Ongoing regulatory studies, set to be finalized late next year, have "already provided for significant peer review," says one NMFS biologist.

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