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SD public defense duties shift from counties to state; SCOTUS appears skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies; Trump lawyers say he can't make bond; new scholarships aim to connect class of 2024 to high-demand jobs.

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The SCOTUS weighs government influence on social media, and who groups like the NRA can do business with. Biden signs an executive order to advance women's health research and the White House tells Israel it's responsible for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

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Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken production, Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals and California's extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it's time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains.

New Federal Salmon Plan—No Better than the Last?

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Thursday, November 1, 2007   

Eugene, OR – The newest federal salmon recovery plan has been released, and salmon advocates say the future is no brighter for the Pacific Northwest's native fish, or the the communities, fishermen and businesses that rely on them. Conservationists, fishermen and community leaders are calling on Congress to step in and help. They say the new plan isn't much different than the previous plan a federal judge already found illegal for not doing enough to restore salmon populations under the federal "Endangered Species Act."

Glen Spain, of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, says the plan is still not based on sound science or economics.

"It's dressed up in slightly different clothes, but it is essentially the same kind of failed measures that they've been pursing for years,to no avail. We're no better off in the Columbia now than we were 20 years ago."

Spain adds the plan does provide for fish habitat restoration and increased hatchery production, but it doesn't include any significant changes to the area's hydroelectric dams, which hamper fish migration.

"This looks like a stall tactic. Essentially do nothing, or do nothing much more than they're already doing, for as long as possible, until the Administration passes it on to other hands."

The new plan, called a "Biological Opinion," is up for public comment for the next 90 days. A final version of the plan will be issued early next year by the federal NOAA Fisheries Service.


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