An alternative plan to boost kokanee populations
in Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille can’t be put on a
funding fast track, but the Northwest Power
Planning Council will investigate how the proposal
compares with an ongoing recovery strategy.
The Pend Oreille Public Utility District and
Kalispel Tribe, in a May 27 letter to the
Northwest Power Planning Council, called current
efforts “devastating to interests downstream” from
the lake. It asked for scientific and economic
analysis of both …
