Gov. Jay Inslee recently released an executive order that reemphasizes his administration’s support for the state’s salmon recovery efforts as his term enters its final days.
The move comes as regional salmon recovery projects continue to build momentum with support from the Biden administration, but also amid political uncertainty as the state approaches the January transition to a second Trump presidency and new governor.
“We need to think of our state and its waters as borrowed rather than inherited. We owe future generations a healthy state,” Inslee said in a blog post about the move. “These fish and these waters are our responsibility to defend. We’ve charted a course for salmon recovery, and this order holds us to it.”…