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Article: Advocates float radical ideas to save salmon.(Environment)(Current efforts won't sustain the species for another century, Salmon 2100 members say)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2006
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
PORTLAND - Give up on streams that no longer can sustain wild salmon. Throw open the fish hatchery gates. Create a Wild Salmon National Park. Build new waterways instead of tearing down dams.
These are just a few of the conflicting, provocative and radical suggestions from a group of 33 scientists, salmon policy analysts and advocates who have been studying the future of wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest since 2002.
The volunteer participants of a project called Salmon 2100 unveiled two dozen recommendations Wednesday that they said offer groundbreaking but pragmatic ideas for keeping salmon at ...