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The removal is expected to open up stretches of the upper White Salmon closed off for nearly a century to endangered salmon, steelhead and lamprey. Officials estimate close to 3,000 salmon returning as the river grows healthy and more than 500 steelhead.
"It's such a huge deal for these fish to be able to return to their spawning grounds," says U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Lou Ellyn Jones. "I can't even hardly say how important it is."
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But if it's been closed for 100 years, will the fish still consider it to be their spawning grounds? Or will they just be confused?
10-26-2011, 09:53 PM
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