Lance Dickie of the Seattle Times included a reference to Treaty Rights at Risk in his column this morning:
Frank sees treaty-reserved rights to harvest salmon disappearing along with diminishing salmon populations due to a loss of habitat. No one is in charge of salmon recovery, in Frank’s blunt assessment.
Twenty tribes organized a Treaty Rights at Risk campaign last August. They see unabated pollution of Puget Sound, with little or no enforcement of water quality, zoning and development rules.
In light of what Frank described in an interview this week as a failure by the state, he wants the federal government directly involved.
