31.   In March, acting under the Endangered Species Act, the federal government set in motion a regional plan to restore salmon runs throughout the Pacific Northwest.

32.   In return, Americans want to reduce catches off Vancouver Island of coho and chinook bound for Washington and Oregon, where salmon runs are slumping.

33.   In their reverence they see the annual return of the diminishing salmon runs as a gift from God.

34.   In the Pacific Northwest, AmeriCorps members are engaged in pollution cleanup and other projects aimed at replenishing the salmon run in the Columbia River.

35.   It has come to include consideration of hundreds of species or subspecies, including many salmon runs that are proposed for listing as endangered or threatened.

36.   It will be used to buy conservation easements that protect farmland from encroaching urban development or to purchase water rights to protect struggling salmon runs.

37.   Jim Anderson, executive director of the Northwest Indian Fishery Commission, agreed with Turner that the state and tribes are on the path to restoring salmon runs.

38.   Knowles said he wants fisheries experts from Washington, Oregon and Alaska to assess the state of salmon runs.

39.   McNulty does not simply lament the decline of wild salmon runs.

40.   Others announce that the United States and Canada agree on an urgent plan to rescue salmon runs in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.