A federal judge has rejected three different federal Government plans to balance the wild salmon of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River is himself off the case.
US District Judge James Redden sent an email to lawyers Tuesday said he had asked that the case is moved.
Redden gave reason to resign. He was 82 and had taken on a reduced workload for quite some time.
Redden has been a champion for wild salmon and the Endangered Species Act, said Pat Ford, Executive Director of save our Wild Salmon, a coalition of conservation groups that bring litigation soon after salmon started going to threatened and endangered species list in the mid-1990s.