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Article: Clinton, Conservationists and Tribes Battle Farm Lobby over Columbia River.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- May 30, 2000
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May 29--RICHLAND, Wash.--Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt was joined by tribal representatives, conservationists and local elected officials on a tour of the Hanford Reach, the last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River in the United States.
The visit, which included a float trip down portions of the 51 mile-long stretch of river earlier this month, was part of the secretary's decision-making process on whether to advise President Bill Clinton to declare parts of Hanford Reservation and the Hanford Reach as the Hanford National and Ecological Monument.
"President Clinton has asked Secretary Babbitt to look at a number of places and get Secretary ...