Anti-Indian group files Klamath suit

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2002

An anti-sovereignty and anti-treaty rights group has filed a lawsuit seeking to lift protections for fish considered sacred to tribes in the Klamath Basin.

Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit in federal court in Oregon. The group has asked the judge who struck protections for Oregon coastal coho salmon to do the same for the coho on the Oregon-California border.

Pacific Legal is currently representing a non-Indian seeking to log timber land land she owns in the Hoopa Valley Reservation. The group has asked the Supreme Court to reverse a ruling favoring the Hoopa Tribe.

Get the Story:
Group files suit over Klamath coho protection (The Oregonian 2/6)
Klamath Water Salmon Lawsuit Filed (AP 2/6)
Suit Filed Over Status of Klamath Salmon (AP 2/6)
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Relevant Links:
Pacific Legal Foundation - http://www.pacificlegal.org
Resource Allocation in the Klamath Basin: An Assessment of Natural Resource, Economic, Social, and Institutional Issues - http://eesc.orst.edu/klamath
Klamath Tribes - http://www.klamathtribes.org
Klamath Basin in Crisis - http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org

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