Ice Harbor Dam on the lower Snake River in Washington, one of the four that dam breaching advocates wish to remove. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The Andrus Center conference on May 13 appeared to rehearse many of the arguments in the war over removing the four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington. Positioned at center stage at the conference was Congressman Mike Simpson's recent proposal to breach the dams. "(Some argue Congressman Simpson's) proposal (is) anti-hydro power. This is a tiresome accusation is almost obviously the reverse," stated Shannon Wheeler, chairman of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee. "(Simpson's proposal) would remove four non-critical non-storage dams to restore a critical Columbia Basin River Corridor, but would provide long-term legal protections and license extensions for essentially all the remainder of the Columbia Basin hydropower system. Frankly, this should be so plain that some of our people see the disproportion in