Columbia River Salmon: Are Any of the ESA Tools Adequate for the Job?

32 pages. Contains footnotes

How Do You Learn from a River? Managing Uncertainty in Species Conservation Policy

As the Puget Sound region embarks on a new chapter in the story of the Endangered Species Act, experiences with fish and wildlife restoration efforts in other locations can be instructive. This Article reviews conservation efforts in the Columbia River Basin, and it explains the major role that scientific uncertainty plays in salmon conservation efforts. This discussion describes the debate between traditional fish and wildlife management, which focuses more on individual populations and mitigation technologies, and recent scientific reports, which urge more reliance on naturally functioning rivers and watersheds. The Article also describes a variety of learning tools that have helped in managing the scientific uncertainty that this debate reflects. These tools stem from an idea called adaptive management, a way of learning from experience. The tools now include initiatives in applied research, collaborative modeling, independent scientific advice, and ecological syntheses that shape policy development. Some of the insights this work has generated, particularly the importance of building conservation programs around natural processes and population structures, offer substantive guidance for other salmon recovery efforts. This Article concludes that furthering collaboration between science and policy will play a major role in the success of species conservation programs, but ecosystem-scale experimentation is a puzzle that still needs a solutio

Either/Or? Will Climate Change Force a Choice Between Salmon and Electricity in the Northwest?

12 pages and 16 slides Includes bibliographical references John M. Volkman, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, Orego

A Meeting of Opposites—Is Sustainable Use of the Columbia River Possible?

47 pages. Contains footnotes

Columbia River Salmon: Are Any of the ESA Tools Adequate for the Job?

32 pages. Contains footnotes

A River in Common: The Columbia River, the Salmon Ecosystem, and Water Policy

Under the Western Water Policy Review Act of 1992 (P.L. 102-575, Title XXX), Congress directed the President to undertake a comprehensive review of Federal activities in the 19 Western States that directly or indirectly affect the allocation and use of water resources, whether surface or subsurface, and to submit a report of findings to the congressional committees having jurisdiction over Federal Water Programs

A Meeting of Opposites—Is Sustainable Use of the Columbia River Possible?

47 pages. Contains footnotes