What are the Fish and Wildlife Services expectations regarding implementation of subbasin plans?
When subbasin planning is complete, the Council’s Fish and Wildlife Program will be the most comprehensive description of the important fish and wildlife resources and high priority restoration activities available in the Columbia Basin. We recognize the importance of this effort and appreciate it’s value. However, we believe the strength of the Council’s subbasin planning process resides in it’s potential for implementation through the Fish and Wildlife Program. Although the development of subbasin plans is separate from implementation of those plans, we believe that subbasin planning will achieve it’s greatest success when there is a high level of commitment to their implementation, particularly the high priority protection and restoration needs identified. In addition, we believe the value of subbasin plans extend beyond the Council or the Bonneville Power Administration. We intend to integrate high priority activities identified in subbasin plans into our current management activit
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