Columbia River Salmon Restoration Hit Hard by $1.5B Cut to Army Corps of Engineers
VANCOUVER, Wash. —The Trump administration has cut tens of millions of dollars from a key Columbia Basin salmon-restoration program run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a move experts say puts the treasured Northwest fish in further jeopardy.
The Columbia River Fish Mitigation program attempts to balance out significant harm inflicted by the Columbia River hydropower dam system on endangered salmon and steelhead runs.
The 46% cut to the program's yearly budget comes amid tens of billions of dollars in cuts to the...
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