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FEBRUARY 2, 2001

In a guest column published in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Russ Lehman, managing director of First American Education Project, says tribes filed a lawsuit against the state out of frustration and exhaustion.

The tribes have filed the suit in order to force the state to repair and fix culverts on a faster schedule than the state has proposed. The tribes want the culverts repaired in order to help restore dwindling runs of salmon.

The tribe depend on salmon for cultural and economic subsistence and are guaranteed half of the catch in the state due to treaty rights.

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OPINION: Tribes sued state out of frustration (Russ Lehman. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 2/2)