Northwest tribes this week suggested the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
start again in its environmental report on the effects of deepening 105
miles of the Columbia River and Willamette River shipping channel. At the
same time, it offered a timeline to the National Marine Fisheries Service
for formal consultation that could delay NMFS biological opinion of the
projects effects on endangered salmon.
In letters this week to the Corps and NMFS about the proposed project,
Don Sampson, …
