SALEM, Ore. - The federal government has rejected the offer to try something new and different for resorting wild salmon and steelhead in Columbia and Snake Rivers.
From Brett Brownscombe, a policy adviser from Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber's Natural Resources Office: "There's a real opportunity here to, once and for all, resolve the decade-plus litigation. We feel the government is missing this, asking the region to walk down the same path that has led to multiple court decisions against the government's position."
