Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, tribes and the Oregon Department of Fish
and
Wildlife agreed last week to a compromise on proposed legislation that
would have exempted the tribes from Oregon’s Wild Fish Policy in river
basins upstream from Bonneville Dam.
The compromise avoided a certain veto by Kitzhaber, a possible
intervention into the state’s management of wild endangered salmon
and
steelhead by the federal government, and a split in the Democratic
party. The state Senate is expected to
