Court Says River Plan Cheats Salmon

Court Says River Plan Cheats Salmon

By Dean E. Murphy
New York Times
November 19, 2005

 

In a setback for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court in San Francisco rejected a federal plan to distribute water to farmers from the troubled Klamath River region in Oregon and California, ruling that more water must remain in the river for the coho salmon. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with conservation groups, commercial fishermen and the Yurok and Hoopa Valley Indian tribes in returning the plan to a federal court to be reworked. The groups had sued over the 10-year plan, arguing that it favored irrigation over sustaining the coho, a threatened species.

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