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States, tribes and stakeholders outline basin restoration plans and flag litigation, funding needs
Summary
PAG members heard updates on the Columbia Basin Collaborative and the Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative: both seek consensus actions for salmon and steelhead recovery, infrastructure and hatchery needs, and funding requests to Congress; presenters also flagged a likely mid‑February district court ruling affecting Columbia‑Snake system operations.
Michael Garrity (Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife) and Phil (Yakima Nation representative) briefed PAG members on two basin‑scale initiatives aimed at salmon and steelhead recovery and system accountability.
Garrity described the Columbia Basin Collaborative (CBC) as a multi‑stakeholder, consensus‑oriented forum charged with translating the Columbia Basin Partnership Task Force’s abundance goals into implementation recommendations and congressional appropriations requests. He said the CBC will prioritize areas where consensus is achievable (for example, hatchery maintenance, predator management, certain habitat actions and operations/maintenance backlogs) and…
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