Down the Mighty Columbia River, Where a Power Struggle Looms
This can’t be good. The Trump administration has proposed selling off portions of the transmission network of wires and substations owned by the Bonneville Power Administration, …
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Congress seeks to weaken the Marine Mammal Protection Act
A classic case of treating the symptoms and not the disease. On Wednesday, July 26, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed 21 bills during …
Debating Dams: What’s The Best Way To Protect Salmon?
What’s the best way to ensure the return of salmon and steelhead to something like their historic numbers in the Columbia and Snake rivers? It’s …
Steelhead numbers even lower than predicted for Columbia, Snake rivers
The news about this year’s steelhead run up the Columbia and Snake rivers isn’t getting any better. The count over the Bonneville Dam is so …
TBT: Lost River
Lost River, a limited edition print with an essay by renowned author and conservationist David James Duncan, was released in 2005 by Save Our Wild …
Fisheries managers move to protect B-run
Washington and Oregon are poised to implement rolling closures of the steelhead fishery from the mouth of the Columbia River to the mouth of the …
The ‘June hogs’ often weighed more than 100 pounds
There used to be salmon as big as golden retrievers in the Columbia River, but dams killed them off. LINK (via: Timeline)
TBT: The Columbia: America’s Greatest Power Stream
“The Columbia” is the most famous movie produced by BPA’s Motion Picture Information division. “The Columbia” illustrates the economic and societal value of the Federal …
Ride For Redd
Starting on April 17th, Kat Cannell and Katelyn Spradley will ride their horses from near Astoria, Oregon following the Columbia, Snake and Salmon River drainages …
Oregon departs from Washington in banning Columbia gillnets
Yesterday we were left scratching our heads when we learned that the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife had “lost” 514,000 hatchery steelhead and cutthroat …