California’s endangered salmon population plummets amid new threat
They’ve been pushed to the brink of extinction by dams, drought, extreme heat, and even the flare of wildfires, but now California’s endangered winter-run Chinook …
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Nehalem: A Wild Salmon Stronghold
The Nehalem River, Oregon’s North Coast gem, is a vital salmon ecosystem where our policy and practice — of protection and restoration — come together. …
Delta tunnel: Salmon at risk from massive water project
California’s water agency has released a long-awaited environmental report outlining the details and impacts of a controversial proposal to replumb the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and …
Coldwater Connection
Coastal salmon strongholds on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula — like the Hoh, Queets, and Quillayute rivers — have the greatest likelihood of providing strong runs of …
The Salmon Coast
Shane Anderson teamed up with the folks at the Washington Coast Salmon Partnership to make this film about the important work being done to protect …
Washington bill banning Atlantic salmon farming
Under fire after a collapse and massive escape last summer, Atlantic salmon net-pen farming would be banned in Washington under legislation that will be filed …
Oregon LNG cancels plan for Warrenton terminal
The company behind a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal at the mouth of the Columbia River has abandoned the project, scoring a major victory …
Columbia and Snake sockeye decimated by 2015’s warm rivers
Ninety-nine percent of the Snake River sockeye counted at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River near Portland in 2015 died before reaching Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley …
CA, OR Governors to Make ‘Major Announcement’ on Klamath
Just months after dam removal efforts on the Klamath River seemed to suffer a catastrophic setback, California Gov. Jerry Brown, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and …
Your Uber Is Here…
What’s better than a salmon cannon? An Uber for those migrating fish. Cartoonist Jack Ohman weighs in with this satirical sketch of the flawed trap …