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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

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The numbers of each of the six salmon species native to the Columbia basin have dropped to a fraction of what they once were, and 13 distinct populations are now considered threatened or endangered. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. They haven’t.

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. The National Science Foundation recently launched two new programs with funding opportunities to broaden participation. House passes Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework.

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