Nez Perce Tribe effort to keep salmon population viable

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Sat., May 8, 2021

Fall Chinook leap out of the water as they're fed by Carl East with the Nez Perce Tribe on Monday, May 3, 2021, at a Nez Peirce Tribal Fisheries acclimation site outside Lapwai, ID.

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Spring chinook await feeding time May 3 as they swim in a tank at the Nez Perce Tribe’s Cherrylane hatchery on the Clearwater River in Idaho.

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David Johnson director of the Nez Perce Tribe Department of Fisheries Management looks at a map showing the 1855 Nez Pierce reservation boundaries contrasted with the 1863 Nez Pierce reservation boundaries and the Indian Claims Commission boundaries on Monday, May 3, 2021, in at the Nez Perce Tribe's Department of Fisheries Resouces Management Administration Building in Lapwai, Id.

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Carl East with the Nez Perce Tribe tosses feed for fall chinook at an acclimation site outside Lapwai, Idaho, in May.

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Shannon F. Wheeler, chairman of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee, poses for a photo on Monday at a Nez Perce Tribal Fisheries acclimation site outside Lapwai, Idaho.

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Mike Tuell, deputy director of production for the Nez Perce Tribe’s Department of Fisheries Resource Management, left, smiles May 3 as he and Shannon F. Wheeler, Chairman of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee, talk about the lengths to which the tribe has gone in its effort to keep salmon populations viable at a Nez Perce Tribal Fisheries acclimation site outside Lapwai, Idaho.

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