Yellowstone National Park’s cutthroat trout, already
threatened by illegally introduced lake trout, are now facing
increasing danger from whirling disease
Items by Mike Stark
Residents of Packwood, Wash., want to attract tourists
with a rebuilt highway through Mount St. Helens National Monument,
but conservationists and scientists say the road would impact
wildlife and be dangerous and geologically unstable.
Under the Clean Water Act, aquatic pesticides can no
longer be used in public waterways without a federal
permit.
In Oregon, a plan to selectively log the Clatsop and
Tillamook state forests is supposed to improve habitat for the
threatened northern spotted owl, but conservationists have their
doubts.
The largest wind farm in the world is being constructed on
the Oregon-Washington border near Walla Walla,
Washington.
The Clinton administration's final Northwest salmon plan
is tougher than earlier versions, but still stops short of
dismantling four federal dams on the Snake River.
In Oregon, the EPA fines 10 ranchers for letting their
cows' manure pollute streams and rivers.
After 10 years of studies, an Army Corps of Engineers plan
to deepen 100 miles of the Columbia River shipping channel is in
trouble.
The Nature Conservancy wants to buy Ellsworth Creek, a
Washington watershed near the mouth of the Columbia River that is
valued as a "typical Northwest forest ecosystem."
Northwestern hatcheries now kill excess hatchery salmon to
prevent captive-bred fish from weakening wild species, but critics,
including some Indian tribes, say this is wasteful and
unnecessary.
Critics in Congress, the media and citizens' groups are
calling for reforms and more accountability from the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
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