CORPS’ WITT ANDERSON MOVES UP BUT NOT OUT OF COLUMBIA BASIN SALMON ARENA

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A familiar figure on the Columbia River basin salmon recovery scene has taken a much broader role with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Witt Anderson was recently chosen to lead a $3 billion annual program of water resource projects, military construction, and environmental restoration activities throughout the Columbia and Missouri river basins.

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WASHINGTON’S FIRST AGRICULTURE HCP OUT FOR PUBLIC REVIEW

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service announced this week in the Federal Register the availability for public review of the combined draft Environmental Assessment and Habitat Conservation Plan addressing applications by the Broughton Land Company for incidental take permits for three federally listed aquatic species -- bull trout, chinook salmon, and steelhead.

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PROJECT EXPANDS TRACKING BASIN SALMON WITH ASTORIA ‘LISTENING LINE’

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The Northwest Power and Conservation Council earlier this month recommended $1 million in spending in fiscal year 2008 to expand the work of five ongoing Columbia River basin fish and wildlife projects, and support two endeavors that had not been funded through the Council's program previously.

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BP WITHDRAWS COAL-BED METHANE PROPOSAL FOR FLATHEAD BASIN

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A forum on potential development in the Canadian Flathead drainage opened with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., announcing that energy giant British Petroleum is withdrawing plans for coal-bed methane development in the basin.

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NEARLY 100 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS SIGN SALMON PLAN LETTER TO NOAA

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Nearly 100 members of Congress signed a letter to NOAA Fisheries urging the federal government to develop a plan that examines "all scientifically credible and economically viable alternatives" for salmon recovery in the Columbia Basin, including removing four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington State.

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PROJECT EXPANDS TRACKING BASIN SALMON WITH ASTORIA ‘LISTENING LINE’

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The Northwest Power and Conservation Council earlier this month recommended $1 million in spending in fiscal year 2008 to expand the work of five ongoing Columbia River basin fish and wildlife projects, and support two endeavors that had not been funded through the Council's program previously.

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BP WITHDRAWS COAL-BED METHANE PROPOSAL FOR FLATHEAD BASIN

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A forum on potential development in the Canadian Flathead drainage opened with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., announcing that energy giant British Petroleum is withdrawing plans for coal-bed methane development in the basin.

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NEARLY 100 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS SIGN SALMON PLAN LETTER TO NOAA

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Nearly 100 members of Congress signed a letter to NOAA Fisheries urging the federal government to develop a plan that examines "all scientifically credible and economically viable alternatives" for salmon recovery in the Columbia Basin, including removing four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington State.

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CBB SHORTS:

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CBB SHORTS: Oregon Redband Trout; Lynx Critical Habitat Proposal; New Status Review for Sage-Grouse; Funds for National Forest Watersheds; Emergency Response Exercises at Columbia Dams; Idaho Wolf Plan

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RESEARCHERS DOCUMENT LOW-OXYGEN AREAS OFF NORTHWEST COAST

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A team of scientists studying the California Current -- a slow-moving mass of cold water that travels south along the coast from British Columbia to Baja California -- are seeing increasing areas of water off Washington and Oregon with little or no oxygen, possibly resulting in the deaths of marine animals that cannot leave the low-oxygen areas.

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RESEARCHERS DOCUMENT LOW-OXYGEN AREAS OFF NORTHWEST COAST

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A team of scientists studying the California Current -- a slow-moving mass of cold water that travels south along the coast from British Columbia to Baja California -- are seeing increasing areas of water off Washington and Oregon with little or no oxygen, possibly resulting in the deaths of marine animals that cannot leave the low-oxygen areas.

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EFFORTS AIMED AT IMPROVING LAMPREY PASSAGE, SURVIVAL IN COLUMBIA BASIN

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Pacific lamprey face all the same perils as salmon in the Columbia River basin.

But they don't get nearly as much love -- except from members of Columbia basin tribes, who have long considered the eel look-a-likes a cultural icon on par with the salmon.

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PARTIES HOPE TO DEVELOP COMPREHENSIVE PACIFIC LAMPREY CONSERVATION PLAN

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The Pacific lamprey has little or no economic value, and is little sought after by the fishing public.

And they aren't pretty, having a round, elongate, flexible cartilaginous body, skin with no scales that is slimy to the touch and down-turned mouths adapted for clinging and sucking.

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OREGON COHO LISTED AGAIN; SCIENCE REVIEWS, STATE EFFORTS KEY ISSUES

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A West Coast salmon stock that has been put on and then knocked off the Endangered Species list -- based on legal opinions -- was this week again provided federal protections, albeit with tepid endorsement from NOAA's Fisheries Service.

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WASHINGTON GOVERNOR APPOINTS NEW MEMBER TO COUNCIL

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Gov. Chris Gregoire this week announced the appointment of Dick Wallace to the Pacific Northwest Power and Conservation Planning Council. The three-year term is effective Feb. 16.

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COMMISSIONS MULLING HARVEST ALLOCATIONS BETWEEN RECREATION, COMMERCIAL

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The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has scheduled a conference call today (Feb. 8) to take action on new allocation guidelines for the Columbia River spring chinook sport and commercial fisheries after failing to settle on a plan last week.

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EFFORTS AIMED AT IMPROVING LAMPREY PASSAGE, SURVIVAL IN COLUMBIA BASIN

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Pacific lamprey face all the same perils as salmon in the Columbia River basin.

But they don't get nearly as much love -- except from members of Columbia basin tribes, who have long considered the eel look-a-likes a cultural icon on par with the salmon.

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PARTIES HOPE TO DEVELOP COMPREHENSIVE PACIFIC LAMPREY CONSERVATION PLAN

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The Pacific lamprey has little or no economic value, and is little sought after by the fishing public.

And they aren't pretty, having a round, elongate, flexible cartilaginous body, skin with no scales that is slimy to the touch and down-turned mouths adapted for clinging and sucking.

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OREGON COHO LISTED AGAIN; SCIENCE REVIEWS, STATE EFFORTS KEY ISSUES

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A West Coast salmon stock that has been put on and then knocked off the Endangered Species list -- based on legal opinions -- was this week again provided federal protections, albeit with tepid endorsement from NOAA's Fisheries Service.

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WASHINGTON GOVERNOR APPOINTS NEW MEMBER TO COUNCIL

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Gov. Chris Gregoire this week announced the appointment of Dick Wallace to the Pacific Northwest Power and Conservation Planning Council. The three-year term is effective Feb. 16.

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COMMISSIONS MULLING HARVEST ALLOCATIONS BETWEEN RECREATION, COMMERCIAL

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The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has scheduled a conference call today (Feb. 8) to take action on new allocation guidelines for the Columbia River spring chinook sport and commercial fisheries after failing to settle on a plan last week.

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FEEDBACK: Salmon Extinctions

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* From James R. Esch, USFWS, Boise:

Your story on salmon extinctions has an inaccuracy that I would like to comment on.

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REDDEN GRANTS BIOP EXTENSION TO MAY 5; 2008 HYDRO OPS IN THE WORKS

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U.S. District Court Judge James A. Redden on Tuesday granted the government's request for a 45-day extension of the time allotted for finishing biological opinions on whether federal hydro and irrigation projects jeopardize the survival of protected salmon and steelhead.

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CHELAN PUD EXPANDS EFFORTS TO REDUCE NORTHERN PIKEMINNOW

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A blossoming predator control program is helping the Chelan County Public Utility District deliver on its pledge to ensure 93 percent juvenile salmon and steelhead survival from just below the trailrace of one Mid-Columbia River hydro project to below the tailrace of the next.

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STUDY LOOKS AT HOW RAPID CHANGE IN ECOSYSTEMS IMPACTS SPECIES SURVIVAL

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In a laboratory at Oregon State University, some giant water bugs are swimming happily in a small aquarium -- the sole survivors of a population that had survived for thousands of years in a mountain stream near Tucson, Ariz., but during a severe 2004 drought went locally extinct.

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