Judge Issues Injunction Requiring Immediate Actions at U.S. Army Corps Dams to save Willamette River Chinook Salmon and Steelhead

PORTLAND, OREGON Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez issued a final opinion and order directing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to immediately undertake new measures at dams in the Willamette basin to prevent the extinction of threatened Upper Willamette River wild spring Chinook salmon and winter steelhead. In the final order, More

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