The state of Oregon and its allies in a lawsuit over the future of Northwest salmon don’t like how the Obama administration is handling the issue.
In papers filed in federal court, the state, environmental groups and the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho say they’ve been effectively shut out of the administration’s deliberations over how to run the region’s network of big, power-generating dams without pushing salmon closer to extinction.
The criticism comes from some of the same people who not long ago were applauding the Obama team’s entry in the decades-long and multi-billion dollar conundrum surrounding the imperiled and iconic fish.