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Pests Aside
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19 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Pests Aside For the first time in a decade, the U.S. EPA will assess the impact of 18 common pesticides on endangered salmon and forest plants, as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by three California environmental groups. The pesticides -- several million pounds of them -- are used every year in the state's fie ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, toxics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The After-kla-math
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04 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| The After-kla-math The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has determined that there was "no sound scientific basis" for the federal government's decision to deny irrigation water to more than 1,000 farms in Oregon's Klamath Basin during last summer's drought. A panel of 12 independent scientists, convened at ... |
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| Topics: climate, Department of Interior, fishing, food and agriculture, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics) |
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Shark Skin Suit
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30 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Shark Skin Suit Last summer, they were are our worst enemy; now they need a best friend. We're talking about sharks, of course. The much-maligned beach marauders are now the subject of a lawsuit filed earlier this week against the U.S. government by environmental organizations. The National Audubon Society, Earthjustice, and the Oc ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics (all these topics) |
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Basin and Strange
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29 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Basin and Strange The Bush administration gave the first indication yesterday of how it would work to resolve the water wars in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border -- and enviros immediately warned that the administration was kowtowing to farmers while giving short sh ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics) |
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Running a Groundfish
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04 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Running a Groundfish The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service is breaking the law by failing to sufficiently protect groundfish in New England, a federal judge ruled last Friday. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said she would issue an order with specific directions for how the agency should stop overfishing, because the NMFS can't be trusted to enforce the ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, New England, politics (all these topics) |
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Court Ruling Puts All Salmon Protections at Risk
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14 Sep 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Court Ruling Puts All Salmon Protections at Risk In a decision that could undermine protections for salmon throughout the West, U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan on Wednesday ordered that Oregon coastal coho salmon no longer be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Hogan said federal biologists were wrong to count only wild fish and not the more numerous hatchery-born coho when it decided ... |
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| Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon (all these topics) |
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This Rocks, Fish!
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23 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| This Rocks, Fish! Enviros scored a victory yesterday when a federal judge ordered the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service to do more to protect two species of rockfish, bocaccio and lingcod. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Larson of San Francisco said that the agency had failed to track the number of rockfish that die after they are inadvertently caught and tossed back -- and that current fishing limits for the ... |
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| Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service (all these topics) |
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Dam! An Agency Breaches the Public Trust
Why hasn't the National Marine Fisheries Service called for the removal of the lower Snake River dams? |
Rob Masonis |
13 Dec 2000 |
Soapbox |
| Passions run high in the Pacific Northwest over whether to remove four large federal dams on the lower Snake River to recover the river's imperiled wild salmon and steelhead (a.k.a. sea-run rainbow trout). The Snake once produced more salmon and steelhead than any other river in the vast Columbia River basin -- over 2 million f ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, fishing, hydropower, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Northwest, Snake River (all these topics) |
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