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Dam Operator Agrees to Protect Threatened Salmon, Steelhead, Bull Trout
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Dam Operator Agrees to Protect Threatened Salmon, Steelhead, Bull Trout

An agreement has been reached between environmentalists and the operators of the Electron hydroelectric project on the Puyallup River to preserve safeguards for threatened Chinook salmon steelhead and bull trout. The deal was announced in March after a coalition of conservation groups sued over the facility’s illegal killing of the threatened species. According to the Eugene, Oregon-based Western Environmental Law Center, the agreement keeps the project from operating until and unless operators can address the project’s impacts to federally protected native fish that are threatened with extinction. The Puyallup Tribe separately sued the dam operator over the same issue, and is said to be considering next steps in its lawsuit. The tribe is also a party to a suit brought by the ...