About 13 miles of salmon spawning and rearing habitat in the lower Columbia
River estuary could be recovered if improvements suggested by a U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers environmental assessment are approved.
Improvements to the Westport Slough are proposed at about river mile
50 near Clatskanie, Ore. The Corps wants to remove a levee plug at the
head of the slough, an action that would restore the sloughs connection
between the Columbia River, Westport and Beaver sloughs and the …
