A coalition of conservation and fishing groups on Tuesday asked
Portland’s U.S. District Court to order federal agencies to comply
with
their own directives to provide Columbia Basin water flows to aid
migration of salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species
Act.
The lawsuit notes a “failure of the agencies to deal with the issue
of
flows both in the (Columbia-Snake) mainstem and the tributaries,” said
Jan Hasselman of the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund.
The National …
