Obama administration submits salmon plan to boost fish protection in Pacific Northwest »
Posted By Newperson 3 months ago in Political News
The Obama administration says it will be more aggressive in protecting declining Pacific Northwest salmon runs and will study breaching some dams as a last resort in a long-awaited management plan.The administration submitted the plan to a federal judge Tuesday in Portland. called a "biological opinion," it will guide hydroelectric dam operations and fish conservation programs in the Columbia Basin for the next decade.
The Obama administration said it will speed up things like habitat improvement projects because of concerns about uncertainties such as the effect of climate change.U.S. District Judge James Redden rejected two earlier plans in 2000 and 2004, threatening at one point to take control of dam management.
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