OPINION: As Trump Sends California Water to Farmers, Native Salmon Face Extinction

/in , /by /The Sacramento Beeby Tom Philp

California’s wild salmon have faced just about every obstacle imaginable over the decades as they now cling to survival. Dams have blocked where they are supposed to spawn. Levees deny young fish the floodplain for feasting. Pumps send them in deadly wrong directions.

But all the previous man-made threats to the salmon have nothing on President Donald Trump.

 

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