Breakthrough in 20+ Year Legal Battle Over Fate of Snake River Salmon
For more than two decades, the Nez Perce Tribe, conservation, fishing, and renewable energy groups, and the state of Oregon have been in court fighting to save endangered wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River basin. These fish are iconic to the region and way of the life in the Pacific Northwest. Nothing has been more devastating to these species than four dams that impede a 140-mile section of their migration on the lower Snake River.
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