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Article: NWF Leads Efforts To Save Imperiled Snake River Salmon.(National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
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- National Wildlife
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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Working on several fronts, the National Wildlife Federation is battling to reverse the severe decline of salmon in the Pacific Northwest. For decades, the fish have suffered losses as a result of human activities in the region, and many populations of all five salmonid species in the Northwest are now federally listed as endangered or threatened.
NWF is particularly concerned about the future of the two surviving salmon species that spawn in the Snake River: chinook and sockeye. Experts say that these fish are likely to be extinct by 2017, unless the federal government agrees to bypass four dams on the lower Snake River that block the salmon from reaching their ...