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IPFS News Link • Environment

Salmon Spawning for the First Time in 80 Years in the Upper Columbia River

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It's the culmination of decades of dreaming, and years of work, which one can hear in the words of Crystal Conant, a Colville tribal member of the Arrow Lakes and SanPoil bands, when she spoke to Eli Francovich at Spokesman. "I was shocked at first, then I was just overcome with complete joy…I don't know that I have the right words to even explain the happiness and the healing," she said.