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Gov. Jay Inslee presented his $187 million salmon recovery proposal after ceremonies with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. The governor called the plan "comprehensive" and noted that it touches on all the critical aspects of fisheries conservation management: habitat, hatcheries, harvest and hydropower.

As outlandish as the killer heat wave that struck the Pacific Northwest was, it fits into a decades-long pattern of uneven summer warming across the…