Practiced at the art of deception: the failure of Columbia Basin salmon recovery under the Endangered Species Act.

From: Environmental Law | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The saga of Columbia Basin salmon recovery is one of the foremost natural resource restoration efforts in the United States over the last quarter-century. Although development of the world's largest integrated hydroelectric system crippled the Columbia's salmon runs, Congress declared in 1980 that salmon and hydropower were to become "co-equals" in the management of Columbia Basin dams. However, that declaration did not prevent the listing of most Columbia Basin salmon runs under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Widely perceived as a draconian, economically insensitive statute, the ESA ...

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