Diamond Lake EIS Process Ends Without Decision

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially terminated the Environmental Impact Statement process it began two years ago to review a proposal from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to treat Diamond Lake with the fish toxicant rotenone.

State fish and wildlife officials sent the Service a letter on August 30, 2001, saying the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission had directed them to withdraw the proposal. State fish and wildlife officials had discussed using rotenone at Diamond Lake since 1996, when they realized the lake