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Under the President's Northwest Forest Plan, funding has been 

 provided to restore salmon habitat damaged by logging suid road- 

 building practices. This initiative has the purpose of not only 

 providing important "jobs in the woods" in the Northwest, but is 

 speeding the process of recovery in degraded salmon streams . 



NMFS, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Environmental 

 Protection Agency are cooperating in the development of a non- 

 Federal habitat initiative to establish guidelines for 

 maintaining salmon habitat and to educate landowners on how land 

 management activities affect salmon production. These guidelines 

 will assist landowners in developing and in^lementing hc±)itat 

 conservation plans pursuant to section 10 of the ESA. 



Individual recovery plans, such as that for Snake River salmon, 

 must be reviewed with an eye on these larger regional strategies 

 to conserve salmon. It is through these types of ecosystem 

 approaches that we feel the greatest long-term benefits can be 

 attained. However, we still must move forward with recovery 

 efforts, as we may not be able to wait for these broader efforts 

 to bear fruit . 



On an institutional level, a similar "ecosystem" principle 

 applies to coordinating recovery efforts. We know that before a 

 lasting agreement can be reached on a recovery program for 

 salmon, the political, economic, and legal issues must be 



