The Federal District Court can order WDFW to meet and confer, but the court cannot order WDFW or the state to agree to a management plan that is so flawed. WDFW should have refused to agree. Then the court could have ordered the PS Chinook plan as the Federal Court and Agency PS Chinook Management Plan. That would leave open the option of WA state to sue the applicable federal agency that saw fit to order this mediation for suitable relief. Relief like the Stillaguamish portion failing to pass the conservation red face and smell tests.

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