Warming climate, budget cuts among most serious challenges

FRANK ARMENDARIZ / PHOTO. The Leaburg Hatchery was built in 1953 to mitigate the loss of trout habitat due to the construction of the Willamette Valley reservoir system. Funding and environmental changes now hamper the production of hatchery trout.

I’ll leave it to my readers to determine the cause, whether our changing climate is the result of a cycle or human activities. There is no doubt, however, that our climate is warming.

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