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Can't ignore the complexity

I'm a bit concerned that the guest author has taken a very disjointed view of the Columbia River Basin and a functioning ecosystem.  No one knows about the intimate and complex relationships that exist within an ecosystem more than tribes.  It's these relationships that have, and continue to sustain the tribal communities that call the Columbia Basin home.  

Your comment "With less than 25 percent of the funding going toward those stocks, it is clear that this deal wasn't intended to address the actual ESA issues facing the Northwest," is troubling to me because it treats salmon as an independent component rather than a part of the entire system.  Logic tells me that if you do something to help the ecosystem for non-listed salmon, lamprey, sturgeon, trout and the many other species this MOA benefits-you will also benefit ESA-listed salmon.  They all require the same quality habitat, clean water and cool temperatures.  It seems terribly ignorant to think salmon exist in a vacuum and independent of anything else. Ecosystems are a series of complex relationships. One can not look to a single species and a single solution. Doing so misses the big picture.On On the Bush administration's deal for Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead posted 1 year, 7 months ago 5 Responses