A supplemental biological opinion completed last month blesses a plan
to continue federal operations which times the release of 427,000 acre
feet of reservoir water in Idaho to coincide, primarily, with the migration
of Snake River fall chinook salmon listed Endangered Species Act.
That National Marine Fisheries Services decision was made to the chagrin
of the state of Idaho, which maintains that it has sovereignty over water
uses within its bounds. The Bureau of Reclamations principle …
