As the region debates salmon recovery in
the Columbia/Snake River Basin, the Northwest Fisheries Science Center
— the science arm of the National Marine Fisheries Service in the Northwest
— is mounting an effort to assess the impact of actions in several areas
on salmon populations. That effort, the Cumulative Risk Initiative (CRI),
now has a site on the World Wide Web at http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/cri/.
“We are committed to an open process that
lets anyone look at our work in progress,”
