Editor’s Notebook: Wild Snake River Steelhead Still Struggling Since Listing, Returns Far Off Regional Goals

It’s been a tough couple of years for one of the Columbia River Basin’s most iconic fish – wild Idaho steelhead. After 30 years of recovery efforts, return numbers for the long-distance, high country steelhead are currently close to where they were when listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1997.

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