The Snake River sockeye salmon no longer holds the lonely distinction
of being the only Columbia Basin salmon species listed under the Endangered
Species Act.
Since that listing has come a trickle — the Snake River fall chinook
and spring/summer chinook runs in 1992, the Upper Columbia River and Snake
River Basin steelhead runs in 1997 and the Lower Columbia River steelhead
in 1998.
Now comes the flood. This week the National Marine Fisheries Service
officially gave Endangered …