[env-trinity] Hoopa Valley Tribe declares intent to sue to protect Klamath Coho Salmon

[Felice Pace]

It is about time that someone challenged ESA management that is killing
most of the juvenile Klamath Coho before they can reach the ocean. Bravo to
the HVT!

Last year adult Coho also died as a result of diseases made epidemic by the
Klamath Irrigation Project's bad water quality and failure to provide
adequate spring flows. It is shameful that no organization in the
environmental community stepped up to challenge corrupt ESA management in
the Klamath River Basin; but good that the HVT has stepped in to do the job
environmental and fishing organizations failed to do.

This happened as a direct result of agencies and fishing groups agreeing to
provide "regulatory assurances" to federal irrigators as part of the KBRA
Water Deal. Such "assurances" - which amount to agreements not to enforce
provisions of the ESA and state wildlife law that inconvenience the federal
Irrigation Elite - corrupt agency personnel. Those federal officials who
conspired to not enforce the ESA, need to be reassigned to desk jobs in DC
or Portland.

Such "regulatory assurances" mischief must not be included in any future or
newly negotiated water deals.
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