03. HABITAT - Columbia Basin Bulletin - Page 123

3. FISHING GROUPS URGE HATCHERY SPENDING BOOST

September 15, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER

Two Columbia Basin fishing interests often at odds about how to share
fish harvests have united in an effort to wring more dollars from next
year's federal budget.

The money is needed, they say, to ward off hatchery production cutbacks
and provide funding for fish marking that is allowing a more bountiful
harvest of returning hatchery salmon and steelhead through selective
fisheries.

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5. PACIFICORP THREATENS LAWSUIT OVER KLAMATH BIOP

September 15, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

In anticipation of a soon-to-be-released biological opinion, PacifiCorp
this week filed a 60-day Notice of Intent to sue the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service alleging violations of the Endangered Species Act and
the Administrative Procedures Act in Oregon's Klamath Basin.

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1. NMFS ASKS FOR WITHDRAWAL OF ESA HABITAT DESIGNATIONS

September 15, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 08. LAW

The National Marine Fisheries Service on Monday (March 11) teamed with
home building groups and others in asking the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia to allow the withdrawal of critical habitat
designations for 19 Pacific salmon and steelhead populations listed
under the Endangered Species Act.

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3. BIG TURNOUT FOR CONDIT DAM REMOVAL HEARING

September 15, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

The battle lines remain clearly drawn about whether southwest
Washington's 125-foot-tall, concrete Condit Dam should be removed from
the White Salmon River to revive a free-flowing ecosystem, or retained
to provide the many benefits people have come to expect since the hydro
project was built in 1913.

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5. FEDS REJECT WALLOWA RIVER DAM, RESTORATION PROPOSAL

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER

The Department of Interior this week came out against a bill that would
authorize federal funding to rehabilitate an aging private dam and
enhance and restore salmon habitat in Oregon's Wallowa River Basin.

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5. GROUPS SUE OREGON FORESTRY BOARD OVER COHO PROTECTIONS

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 08. LAW

Citing "years of inaction" by the Oregon Board of Forestry, a coalition
of conservation and fishing groups has brought suit against the state
agency, claiming its top official is allowing logging practices that
violate the federal Endangered Species Act.

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6. NATIONAL HYDROPOWER ASSOCIATION RELEASES POLL

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 07. POWER

Northwest voters support keeping existing hydroelectric capacity and
building new projects even if they might cause the loss of fish or
wildlife habitat, according to a hydropower industry poll released
Thursday.

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2. CBB Q&A WITH BOB LOHN, NMFS REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

One of the most notable hot seats for federal officials in the Pacific
Northwest has only gotten hotter since Bob Lohn took over in September
as regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service.

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3. PRESIDENT’S BUDGET BOOSTS BASIN SALMON RECOVERY FUNDING

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

President George W. Bush this week sent Congress an FY03 budget that
would boost spending on Columbia Basin salmon recovery to $506 million,
according to Northwest federal agency leaders.

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5. DRAFT FERC REPORT CALLS CONDIT REMOVAL BEST OPTION

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 07. POWER

A long-pondered settlement agreement calling for the removal of
southwest Washington's 125-foot-tall Condit Dam was called "the best and
most cost-effective means of removing the project facilities and
reservoir sediments," in a report issued Wednesday by Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission staff.

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6. ODFW’S DRAFT NATIVE FISH POLICY REPRESENTS DRAMATIC CHANGE

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has made minor changes to its
December draft Native Fish Conservation Policy and intends to present
the policy, along with initial draft rules, February 8 to the Oregon
Fish and Wildlife Commission and to push for initial rulemaking by
April.

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5. FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY TO LEAD BIOP MEDIATION EFFORT

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

Former U.S. Attorney for Oregon, Sid Lezak, has agreed to lead a
mediation effort among the parties involved in a lawsuit that claims a
2000 National Marine Fisheries Service Federal Columbia River Power
System biological opinion is doomed to failure and should be rewritten.

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6. PLUM CREEK HCP AMENDMENT LINKS BEARS WITH FISH

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE

Plum Creek Timber Co. proposes to piggy-back grizzly bears onto a
conservation plan for native fish on its corporate lands in northwest
Montana.

The gap between threatened bull trout and threatened grizzly bears may
not be as wide as it seems, said Tim Bodurtha, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service's habitat conservation plan coordinator in Montana.

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8. CORPS REVISES WETLAND RULES FOR SMALL PROJECTS

September 11, 2003/in 03. HABITAT

Despite opposition from other federal agencies and environmental groups,
the Army Corps of Engineers this week revised its permitting rules for
small dredge-and-fill projects.

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1. CORPS SUBMITS NEW BIO ASSESSMENT FOR CHANNEL DEEPENING

September 11, 2003/in 02. RIVER, 03. HABITAT, 08. LAW

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers submitted to the National Marine
Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Jan. 3 a
biological assessment of impacts to salmon and wildlife if it were to
deepen the Columbia River shipping channel from Portland to Astoria by
three feet.

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9. COMMENTS SOUGHT ON BONNEVILLE DAM FISH PASSAGE PROPOSAL

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking comments on a proposal to
construct and operate a juvenile surface collection and bypass system at
the Bonneville Dam's Second Powerhouse to improve salmon passage.

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2. LYNX SURVEY ‘HOAX’ RAISES IRE OF CONGRESSMEN

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT

Federal agencies are treating three instances of deliberately planted false evidence of Canada lynx in southwestern Washington by several of their biologists as an isolated incident, but members of Congress are demanding further investigation and punishment.

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3. SMITH, WYDEN AGREE ON KLAMATH SPENDING PLAN

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 08. LAW

Oregon's senators have agreed on a $175 million federal spending plan to alleviate conflicts between agriculture and endangered species over water in the Klamath Basin.

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1. CORPS CHOOSES NON-BREACHING ALTERNATIVE FOR SNAKE

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

After more than five years of research conducted at a cost of $25
million, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced this week that major
systems improvements -- not dam breaching -- will be the preferred path
for trying to improve salmon and steelhead survival through four lower
Snake River federal hydroelectric projects.

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2. REGIONAL SALMON GOVERNANCE FORUM AGAIN DISCUSSED

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

The "federal executives," along with representatives of states and
tribes, met this week to consider the potential of transitioning from an
informal organization to a more formal, regional decision-making forum.

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3. ISSUE PAPERS RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

Federal, state and tribal representatives raised issues this week with
the federal "implementation plan" released by the federal action
agencies in mid-November.

The plan describes the specific measures the agencies will implement
between Oct. 1, 2001, and Sept. 30, 2002, to comply with the National
Marine Fisheries Service' 2000 biological opinion.

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5. SCIENTISTS ASKED TO RE-EVALUATE METHOW PROJECT BENEFITS

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

An October discovery that a section of north-central Washington's Methow
River had run dry has caused funding entities to rethink a March
decision to spend $2.5 million to protect the reach's riparian habitat.

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1. GAO: ROAD FISH PASSAGE TO TAKE $375 MILLION, DECADES

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE

Federal agencies estimate that efforts to restore fish passage through a
maze of some 122,000 miles of roads on federal lands in Oregon and
Washington "may ultimately cost over $375 million and take decades,"
according to a General Accounting Office report issued Monday.

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3. CORPS SOON TO RELEASE CHANNEL DEEPENING ASSESSMENT

September 10, 2003/in 02. RIVER, 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 08. LAW

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it expects to release in
mid-December an assessment of the biological effects that deepening the
Columbia River shipping channel by three feet from Portland to Astoria
may have on 13 listed species of salmon, steelhead and trout.

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1. NMFS DECISION ON HOGAN SPARKS MIXED REACTIONS

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

A federal decision to revisit Endangered Species Act listing decisions
for 23 of 25 West Coast salmon and steelhead stocks has provoked a
variety of opinions about the future of the region's fish recovery
efforts.

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