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A Fighting Chance for Wild Salmon in the Columbia & Snake Rivers

Judge Finds Dam Operations Illegal

Campaign:

Fish Trees Water: Safeguarding and Restoring the Great Northwest

Issue:

Region:

Pacific Northwest

Office:

Background:

Enforcing Salmon Protections of the Northwest Forest Plan

Salmon Protection in the Northwest

Snake River Dam Operation

Buck in Brief:

"The Columbia... a river that died and was reborn as money" (07/15/05)

The ESA and the Executive (10/19/06)

Victory Roundup (04/17/07)

Legal Document:

Columbia Hydropower Opinion

Columbia River Power System Biological Opinion Complaint

Judge Redden Letter on Columbia-Snake Biological Opinion, 2009

Salmon BiOp Order 9-27-06

Tribes' response to government's report to Redden 0706

Upper Snake Biological Opinion Ruling

Press Release:

Feds Link Harm to Endangered Puget Sound Killer Whales to Destruction of Freshwater Salmon Habitat in California (06/10/09)

Judge Says Federal Agencies Need To Do More For Salmon Runs (05/18/09)

Conservation Group CEOs Ask Obama Administration to Change Bush Salmon Policy (04/24/09)

State of Oregon, Fishing and Conservation Groups Ask Court to Protect Salmon and Jobs (11/24/08)

Fishermen, Conservationists Issue New Legal Challenge to Bush Administration’s Reckless Salmon Plan (06/17/08)

Additional Resources:

Columbia-Snake Salmon Letter

The Current Attack on the Salmon Listings

Tom's Turn:

Science Under Siege (10/15/04)

Cases

Columbia River Hydropower Reform

In Brief: A combination of dams, diversions, pollution, and other factors has reduced the populations of wild salmon in the watershed of the Columbia to a tiny fraction of their historic size. Earthjustice is involved in several lawsuits aimed at restoring the salmon and making the river more hospitable to them.

Staff:

Clients:

American Rivers

Idaho Rivers United

National Wildlife Federation

Northwest Environmental Advocates

Northwest Sport Fishing Industry Association

Updated: July 1, 2009

Case #05602, 05678

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