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Sierra Club 



Columbia Basin Field Office 

 Route 2. Box 303-A 

 Pullman, WA 99163 



(509) 332-5173 

 FAX: (509) 332-5173 



Testimony 

 of 



Jim Baker 



Northwest Salmon Campaign Coordinator 



Sierra Club 



to the 



Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries 

 Hon. Gerry Studds, Chairman 

 U.S. House of Representatives 



Recovery Planning for Salmon in the Columbia /Snake River Watershed 



July 5, 1994 



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, the Sierra Club, a 

 national environmental organization of 500.000 members, appreciates this 

 opportunity to provide written testimony to the Committee on recovery 

 planning for threatened, endangered, and "at risk" salmon in the 

 Columbia /Snake River watershed of the Pacific Northwest. As you know, the 

 Committee held a hearing on this subject on this date, June 30. 1994. We 

 would respectfully request that our testimony be included in the official 

 record of that hearing. 



The Sierra Club believes that the Pacific Northwest can recover 

 declining wild salmon runs in the Columbia /Snake watershed, and can do so 

 not only without significant economic impacts, but in fact, with important 



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