After decades of legal fighting over hydroelectric dams that have contributed to the depletion of salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest, the Biden administration is extending settlement talks with plaintiffs who hope the resolution they are seeking — removal of the dams — is near.
The federal government has been sued five times over its failed attempts to save salmon in the Columbia River basin and for violating longstanding treaties with the Nez Perce, Yakama, and Umatilla tribes. But now, the Biden administration and others say that restoring the salmon population is an issue of tribal justice, as well as the only real solution.
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