B. Long-Term . 



The workshop participants stressed the practical, political, and legal feasibility of 

 improving Basin governance of fish and wildlife without the inevitable delays and 

 uncertainties inherent in developing and pursuing broad, systemic shanges. Thus, the 

 group, sometimes sub-groups or individuals, suggested several short-term strategies, as 

 reflected in the preceding section. This does not imply a negative attitude toward all 

 long-range or fundamental changes. Indeed, most people feU that the best way to 

 identify and develop significant legislative changes would be through further debate. 

 These concepts could be tested through incremental changes in the short term and 

 effected so far as possible within existing legal authority. 



Longer term issues to be considered include expansion of the Council, merging 

 the legal requirements for planning and species recovery into a single plan, and 

 establishing a dispute resolution mechanism. One of the major issues regarding systemic 

 change in legal authority is in the composition of the Council: should it include 

 representatives of the tribes and federal government? Should there be a role for Canada? 

 For the time being this widely perceived issue can be addressed through voluntarily 

 convened technical and policy groups. 



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