Amid the drumbeat of litigation that surrounds Columbia River salmon and the ever-present debate over dam-breaching, it’s easy to miss one remarkable achievement: We now have a salmon-protection strategy that most of the region agrees on. That has never happened before. Most of the affected Native American tribes support it. Three of the four Northwest […]
Greg Delwiche
Posted inMay 4, 2009: Salmon Salvation
Salmon (apolitical) science
Not only did Steve Hawley’s article “Columbia Basin (Political) Science” include factual errors and omit balancing views, but it also missed dramatic, positive changes surrounding Northwest salmon protection in recent years (HCN, 4/13/09). States, tribes and federal agencies that once stood on different sides now stand together behind the region’s new salmon strategy. Consider the […]