Four top Obama administration officials will travel to Portland on Tuesday, to hear fish stories and angle for answers.
The delegation will meet with states and Indian tribes embroiled in the long-running legal battle over how to preserve and restore decimated salmon runs of the Columbia and Snake River system.
Yet, it appears the administration brass are courting controversy by conferring with only some of the players in litigation over whether the federal government has shirked its duty to salmon.
The Portland meeting comes after a May 15th letter in which Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski asked the administration for an on-scene meeting to offer ideas on how salmon wars can be resolved "without further intervention by the courts."