Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native Fish Populations in the Columbia River Basin

What Presidential Memorandum 2023-21882 says

Federal Register, Volume 88 Issue 189 (Monday, October 2, 2023) [Federal Register Volume 88, Number 189 (Monday, October 2, 2023)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 67617-67619] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2023-21882] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 88 , No. 189 / Monday, October 2, 2023 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 67617]] Memorandum of September 27, 2023 Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native Fish Populations in the Columbia River Basin Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies The Columbia River and its tributaries, wetlands, and estuaries are the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest, providing abundant water, power, recreation, agriculture, transportation, and natural resources that have supported livelihoods, cultural and spiritual practices, commerce, and economic growth. The salmon, steelhead, and other native fish populations in the Columbia River Basin (Basin) are essential to the culture, economy, and way of life of Tribal Nations in the region and Indigenous peoples in Canada, and also provide an important food source for endangered orca, which are sacred to many Tribal Nations in the region. In 1855, the United States and four of the Tribal...

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