The feds’ good news: ‘Peace in our time’
By Peter Jamison
For California’s commercial salmon fishery, which repeatedly finds itself pummeled by bad breaks, the past week has brought an unusual flurry of decent news. Last Friday, federal and state officials announced an “agreement in principle” with the utility PacificCorp to remove four hydropower dams from the Klamath River, which snakes across the Oregon-California border. On Tuesday, officials from NOAA Fisheries Service issued