Re: “A river returns” (Sept. 21, Opinion):
Sunday’s Opinion part article offers Amy Bowers Cordalis, a member of the Yurok Tribe, a well-deserved shoutout for her profitable combat to take down 4 dams on the Klamath River, restoring the flexibility of salmon emigrate 400 miles from the Pacific Ocean to spawn in newly opened habitat. Readers can look ahead to studying her e book, “The Water Remembers,” when it seems subsequent month.
Earthjustice, America’s largest environmental nonprofit legislation agency, represented the Yurok Tribe and industrial fishers between 2001-2024 within the litigation that led to eradicating the dams and saving the salmon runs on the Klamath. Earthjustice represents plaintiffs in an analogous lawsuit looking for to take away salmon-killing dams on the Snake River and restore salmon runs within the Columbia River.
The success of the Klamath River litigation tells us that breaching the Snake River dams can restore salmon runs within the Columbia River basin as effectively. Politicians, please word.
Fritz Wollett, Seattle
