Bringing Back the Salmon: Gail Norton Claims Credit for Bush

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The Source Weekly | July 14, 2004
Interior Secretary Gail Norton jetted into Oregon to claim credit for returning salmon and steelhead to the Deschutes River "for the first time since 1968" on Tuesday. The Pelton Round Butte Dam complex has been the biggest stumbling block to healthy anadromous salmon fisheries in the high desert rivers for the last 50 years.

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