CORPS PLEDGES TO BALANCE INTERESTS IN MISSOURI
RESTORATION: The Army
  Corps of Engineers "is promising to work with barge
companies,
farmers
  and environmentalists" to resolve conflicts over a
controversial plan
  for a "spring rise" needed to restore habitat for
the pallid
sturgeon,
  least tern, and piping plover says the St. Louis
Post Dispatch 12/15.
  The Corps' just released draft plan "did not back
away" from flow
  alterations but did stress the need for other
changes such as
"opening
  backwaters and removal of old dikes and rock
structures." While some
  fear the elections might halt the new river
management plan, the
USFWS
  says "biology doesn't change with a change in
administration."

  HANFORD REACH SALMON REVERSING SEXES: Some 80% of
the female wild
  chinook salmon from the Hanford Reach section of the
Columbia River
  "began life as males" says AP 12/15. Scientists say
"sex reversal"
  revealed by genetic samples may reduce the number of
females
available
  to produce eggs and could be related to "water
temperature
fluctuations
  caused by hydroelectric dams."


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