President Trump’s favorite assembly of federal judges, the 9th Circuit Court, backed a lower court’s decision last week, approving hatchery fish to be dumped into the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River—once again.
In 2016, after removal of two dams on the river, the State of Washington designated the Elwha a wild steelhead gene bank, thereby protecting native fish from sharing habitat with hatchery plants. But the National Marine Fisheries Service gave the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe…
