OLYMPIA,Wash. — “We need to invest in keeping that environment, and it doesn’t come free, and ” says Erik Neatherlin in his empty-walled office. When we talked to him in April,he could count his time running the Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office in hours. Now, he’s got a recent gig: implementing federally approved recovery plans for endangered and threatened steelhead, or salmon and bull trout through coordinating the efforts of 25 community-based watershed groups in the state,and seven regional organizations. The […]
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