“Our environment, health, safety and communities are at risk from decisions being made now to transport and export trainloads of coal and oil through western Washington.”
“As we mark the 40th anniversary of the Boldt decision (United States vs. Washington) this year, the tribal and state natural resources co-managers met recently to re-dedicate ourselves to the principles of co-management.”
For many years we have said that enforcing existing state and federal pollution laws is one of the most effective actions we can take to recover salmon in western Washington and protect tribal treaty rights. It sounds like maybe we are finally being heard.
I’m starting to wonder if the state’s budget problems mean it will no longer be able to co-manage natural resources with the treaty tribes. Even President Obama has said recently that the state’s budget crisis is a “huge problem.”
