Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative enters its 2nd year - Elkhorn Media Group

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Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative enters its 2nd year - Elkhorn Media Group

MISSION – The Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative began a year ago. Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Board of Trustees Member Corinne Sams says there’s much work to be done in restoring wild salmon populations, but some progress has been made. “We’ve identified a billion-dollar backlog in infrastructure which intrudes on the ability for salmon to get back to the tributaries where they spawn,” she said. Sams is a commissio…