Biologist can’t stop flood releases to protect california salmon
A fisheries biologist’s bid to protect multiple endangered California salmon species by blocking flood control releases authorized by the US Army Corps of Engineers and National Marine Fisheries Service failed after a federal court denied an injunction. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Monday that even though Sean White would likely succeed on the merits of his Endangered Species Act claim, he failed to show the “serious or extreme” harm required for an injunction or how that injunction would remedy his alleged harms. White lives downstream of Coyote Valley Dam …