No one is ready to lay the total blame for a southeast Washington landslide
on a logging
clear-cut, but state fish and wildlife officials are sure of one thing
— the silt flushed into the Lewis River has caused troubles at a downstream
hatchery.
And the resulting silt load in the river could cause problems for Endangered
Species Act-listed fall chinook salmon that spawn in the river.
The slide occurred Dec. 16 on Colvin Creek about two miles upstream
of a state-run hatchery on the North
