This is the eighth consecutive annual report prepared by the Council to explain Bonneville’s fish and wildlife mitigation expenditures. A portion of these expenditures is directed to the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program. The reports respond to a July 1999 request by the governors of Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington — the four states represented on the Council — to report annually on Bonneville’s expenditures for fish and wildlife mitigation.
In this eighth annual report, the Council provides an update of Bonneville’s funding through Fiscal Year 2008. The report also includes information about salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin. Financial information was provided by Bonneville in response to requests from the Council and was not independently verified by the Council or its staff. Information about salmon and steelhead was compiled from reports by the Fish Passage Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA Fisheries, the states of Washington and Oregon through the Columbia River Compact, and the University of Washington Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans
Sincerely,
Stephen L. Crow
Executive Director
