Excluding Indigenous voices at Columbia River Treaty talks puts salmon restoration at risk

Hopes for salmon restoration took a dive when both countries chose to exclude Indigenous nations from the process, writes Graeme Lee Rowlands, a research at Quest University Canada.

With the renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty, there’s an opportunity to bring the salmon back home to the upper Columbia through a collaborative international-restoration program, writes Graeme Lee Rowlands, a researcher at Quest University Canada, a private university in Squamish, B.C.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY GRAEME LEE ROWLANDS

October 26, 2018

Salmon used to swim all the way up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean near Astoria, Oregon, to the Canadian Rocky Mountains at the river’s headwaters in Canal Flats, B....

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