7089

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7089
• Author: Northwest Power Planning Council.
• Title: Strategy for Salmon
• USFW Year: 1992.
• USFW - Doc Type: Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program.
• Copyright Material: NO

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Our new charge is,
more extensive. We
must look at all un,
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pacts on salmon and
devise a comprehei.-
sive,regionally
accepted and economi-'
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cally balanced salmon ,
recovery strategy.

W e worked
closely with,
. . the National .
Marine Fisheries Ser-
vice in developing this
str~.Hegy, and the Ser-
. vice has, pledged that it -
will use our amended ,-
.fish and wil<;llife pro,.
gram as the foundation
for its oWn Snake River
s~lmon recovery plans.

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S almoni our
, ill. ost jPotent
symHols of
. - endurance
pnd vig~r/'
. are now. "
among the
region's
.most,. '
vulnerable
spe.cies~.

- .T he Council is .
uniquely situated
. to devise a region-
. al salmon plan.' We 'are
a regional planning
agency. We represent the
states and Governors of
Idaho, MontananOregon
and Washington.
The Northwest
PoWer Act directs us to
develop our fish and} .
wildlife program with
the assistance oLothers,
particularly state and
federal fish and wildlife
agencies and Indian -
tribes., This is what we
have done,

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1840s
First farm irrigation systems installed
a.djacenl to missions near Walla Walla,
Washington, and Lewiston, Idaho. ;-'