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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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government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. By Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Irena Hwang, ProPublica. Photography by Kristyna Wentz-Graff , Oregon Public Broadcasting. Many species of salmon are at or near their lowest numbers on record.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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Senate committee holds hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. California, Arizona, Nevada and the federal government reach agreement to reduce water consumption in the Colorado River basin. A draft of IPBES’ thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control is open for review. Executive Branch.

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