Power Shift on the Columbia
Jin Norton knows a thing or two about the relationship between Columbia River salmon and dams. Norton has been a professional river guide and naturalist …
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Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish
Sockeye, a species of wild salmon, is born in Kamchatic waters and spends its whole life in the Pacific Ocean. Only once it returns to …
Dillingham Asks State To Close Bristol Bay Salmon Fishery
Dillingham city and tribal leaders have asked Alaska’s governor to consider closing the $300 million Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery, saying an influx of workers …
The Heartbeat: The Salmon & People Project
The Smithsonian’s “Salmon & People Project” studies Alaska’s wetlands to help keep salmon fishing sustainable. The Smithsonian is part of a collaborative network conducting …
Big Bar Blasting Resumes To Ensure Salmon Can Migrate Past Landslide
Blasting resumes this month at the Big Bar landslide on the Fraser River to ensure salmon and steelhead can safely migrate this spring. Fisheries and …
What the History of Salmon Can Tell Us About the Future of the Planet
Mark Kurlansky has been telling the story of how humans eat, one food at a time over the last 20 years. He has published popular …
Feds Say Breaching Dams Would Help Salmon
Yeah about that. The federal agencies that run fourteen dams in the Columbia River Basin just released a long-awaited analysis on how they will keep …
Largest Bears Use Small Streams To Fatten Up On Salmon
It’s a familiar scene to anyone who’s watched footage of brown bears catching sockeye salmon in Alaska: They’re standing knee-deep in a rushing river, usually …
What’s the dollar value of wild salmon produced by the Tongass and the Chugach?
Alaska’s Tongass and Chugach National Forests provide many different things to the people who rely on them for food, recreation or a living, but because …
Appeals Court Orders More Action To Protect Salmon, Steelhead In Columbia Basin
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency must do more to protect Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead from dangerously warm river …