Several efforts are in the works to purchase and set aside more wetlands
in the Columbia River estuary, but will those purchases count towards
a
mitigation requirement set by the National Marine Fisheries Service
for
a river channel deepening project?
If Debrah Marriott, executive director of the Lower Columbia River
Estuary Program (LCREP) gets her wish, the efforts would be additive,
which could result in thousands of acres of new habitat being added
to
the estuary in the next …
