West Coast Building, Farming Interests Want Salmon Protections Lifted

Jeff Barnard of the Associated Press writes exhaustively on the the lawsuit filed yesterday by building, logging and agricultural interests who want salmon taken off of the Endangered Species list. “Pacific Legal Foundation, a property rights public interest law firm based in Sacramento, Calif., brought the lawsuit on behalf of the Building Industry Association of Washington, the Coalition for Idaho Water, farm bureaus in Idaho and Washington, the California State Grange and others.” In the Washington state Olympian