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The Umatilla Tribes created leverage by adding salmon to the Umatilla River in a clever gamble:

After watching the Umatilla River dry up year after year, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla decided to prime the recovery pump. In a deliberate fish-first, water-later gamble, the tribe dumped 4 million juvenile, lower-Columbia fall chinook into the river in 1982. The tribe did so knowing the fingerlings were the wrong fish stock for the river.
Gary James, manager of the tribal fisheries program, said the strategy worked: "It leveraged cooperation. The tribes have a treaty right to fish, and it was, 'If we don't do something, the fish will be flopping on the bedrock.' "

Hybrid SUVs are coming. This should help with the fuel inefficiency, although they'll still handle like top-heavy vehicles.