
By California Water Science Center
The train is rolling to get more federal funding to restore salmon to the Upper Klamath River Basin. Here’s why I think that is a bad idea:
If ESA-listed salmon are restored by the federal government to the Upper Basin they will be an “experimental population” and could be removed at any time by a decision of the federal Interior Department. That could actually happen and may be likely if Trump becomes president. In contrast, if the ESA-listed salmon are allowed to repopulate the Upper Basin on their own, they will retain the protection of the federal ESA until they are fully recovered and safe in the Upper Basin.





