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If enacted, the legislation would further the attempts of certain other western states to accomplish a nationwide transfer of federal lands into state ownership. Tribal Fish Commission. The Commission therefore opposes HB 2982. The Columbia River Treaty Tribes reserved certain rights in treaties by which vast amounts of land in the Columbia River Basin were ceded to the United States. The Tribes reserved the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed stations, as well as the right to hunt, gather roots and berries, and pasture stock on the unappropriated public lands.