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Northwest RiverPartners - Hydropower for a better northwest
by: Annie Snider
White House launches salm...

POLITICO Pro

President Joe Biden ordered federal agencies on Wednesday to use their power to help imperiled salmon and steelhead trout in the Columbia River and its tributaries, but he stopped far short of tribes’ and environmentalists’ demands to remove the dams blamed for decimating the fish populations.

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Northwest RiverPartners - Hydropower for a better northwest
by: Orion Donovan Smith
‘This is historic’: B...

The Spokesman-Review

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a landmark memorandum ordering federal agencies to do their part to restore salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake rivers and honor the U.S. government’s treaty obligations to Northwest tribes.

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Northwest RiverPartners - Hydropower for a better northwest
by: Eric Barker
Biden memo calls for ‘s...

The Lewiston Tribune

President Joe Biden signed a memorandum this morning calling for a “sustained national effort” to honor commitments to the Nez Perce and other tribes by restoring Snake and Columbia river salmon and steelhead to healthy and abundant levels.

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Northwest RiverPartners - Hydropower for a better northwest
by: The Associated Press and KOMO News Staff
Biden deal with tribes pr...

KOMO News

The Biden administration has pledged over $200 million toward reintroducing salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin in an agreement with tribes that includes a stay on litigation for 20 years.

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Northwest RiverPartners - Hydropower for a better northwest
by: Tony Schick
Biden administration prom...

OPB

The Biden administration agreed Thursday to spend more than $200 million to fully fund Native tribes’ plans to reintroduce salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin — more than 80 years after construction of the Grand Coulee Dam rendered the fish extinct in parts of Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.

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Snake River Dam
by: Lynda V. Mapes
Dam removal still on tabl...

The Seattle Times

Dam removal remains on the table on the Lower Snake River under an agreement announced Thursday, after two years of settlement talks between the federal government and tribes and conservationists. Read the article here.

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