Federal Report Underscores Need to Protect Columbia Basin Salmon for Tribal Justice
June 18, 2024
June 18, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 18 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release:
A new federal analysis released today by the U.S. Department of Interior documents how in less than a century, from the 1900s to the 1970s, a series of federal and private dams constructed across the Columbia River Basin devastated natural ecosystems that since time immemorial had sustained abundant salmon, other native fish, wildlife and plants, and the basin's Tribes. . . .
A new federal analysis released today by the U.S. Department of Interior documents how in less than a century, from the 1900s to the 1970s, a series of federal and private dams constructed across the Columbia River Basin devastated natural ecosystems that since time immemorial had sustained abundant salmon, other native fish, wildlife and plants, and the basin's Tribes. . . .