There’s a wide belief, apparently shared by U.S. District Judge James Redden, that the Obama administration will bring more money, more water, more ideas, something, to salmon recovery on the Columbia River.
The implication, of course, is that freed from the Bush administration, the fish agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bonneville Power Administration, all of them, will make a better, stronger effort to save salmon.
Today, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, the former Oregon State University professor chosen by Obama to lead the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, is scheduled to arrive in the Northwest to meet with various parties to the federal lawsuit over the Columbia salmon plan.