Public power utilities, wildlife advocates, tribes, and local elected officials are among the diverse groups lobbying Congress to end hydropower production at eight dams the Army Corps of Engineers operates in the Willamette River Basin.
Here’s why nonprofits won the first court battle in a complex war against the Army Corps over endangered Willamette fish — but trade-offs could further complicate a judge s court order.
The Willamette River Basin once supported tremendous salmon runs. Today, less than 10,000 wild Chinook salmon return each year to the Upper Willamette River basin, approximately a 97% reduction of the historic estimates. And one of the main culprits for the threatened extinction of Willamette River salmon and steelhead are a network of thirteen dams built and operated by the
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