Court Challenge Filed to Recover Oregon Coast Coho Salmon

The Center for Biological Diversity and Oregon Wild today filed a court challenge against the National Marine Fisheries Service over its failure to develop a recovery plan for Oregon coast coho salmon. Despite the fact that the fish has been protected under the Endangered Species Act for nearly seven years, the agency has failed to develop a recovery plan to guide much-needed improvements in logging and other land-management practices identified as a major factor in the coho's imperilment. The groups are represented by Chris Winter with the Crag Law Center and Paul Kampmeier of Kampmeier & Knutsen. “Oregon coast coho need a recovery roadmap if they are to have any chance at surviving," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “A recovery plan is needed to address Oregon's logging rules, which are badly out of date and allow practices that do real harm to coho salmon and the precious rivers and streams they depend on.”...more