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argues to lift salmon protection <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thursday, April 19, 2007 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The Oregonian</span></font></b><font
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9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>EUGENE</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -- Property
rights advocates, farm groups and development interests asked a federal judge
Wednesday to lift Endangered Species Act protections from all threatened and
endangered salmon across the West, arguing that the government failed to count
fish spawned in hatcheries. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The federal
government and conservation groups countered that the Endangered Species Act
requires consideration of the best available science, which clearly indicates
that depending on fish raised in hatcheries to boost salmon numbers will, over
the long run, harm fish that spawn naturally in rivers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Foundation, a property-rights public interest law firm based in <st1:City
w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:City>, brought the suit on behalf of the Building
Industry Association of Washington, the Coalition for Idaho Water, farm bureaus
in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State> and
Washington, the California State Grange and others. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The lawsuit
builds on U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan's 2001 ruling that the federal
agency in charge of restoring dwindling salmon populations, violated the Endangered
Species Act when it put wild and hatchery fish in the same group, but then
protected only the wild fish. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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plaintiffs want the court to lift threatened and endangered species listings
for all 16 protected populations of salmon in <st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State>, <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State>
and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>.
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size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If they win,
some restrictions on logging, irrigation and urban development could eventually
be lifted around the West. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Restrictions
on hydroelectric dam operations in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Columbia</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
would not be affected, because the case does not challenge 10 populations of
steelhead, which overlap many of the protected salmon zones. Pacific Legal
Foundation is challenging those listings, too, in U.S. District Court in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Fresno</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Calif.</st1:State></st1:place>
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