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  • Rocky Barker: Goodbye Larry Craig, Bill Sali, Gordon Smith. Hello salmon solution?

    Ralph Maughan

    Pacific NW political retirement and defeats may break 20-year logjam on saving the salmon- Rocky Barker points out that the election outcome may have removed the obstacles to the conservationists’ solution of the sorry condition of salmon runs into Idaho, but breaching the navigation dams on the lower Snake River in Washington is still far…

  • Judge Redden tells feds to fix damage to salmon from dams or else

    Ralph Maughan

    The federal judge pressing the government to remedy the damage Columbia River dams wreak on protected salmon warned Wednesday of “very harsh” consequences if federal agencies fail to find a solution. This is from the story in the Oregonian by Michael Milstein on the federal judge’s views on the biological opinion that is emerging from…

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