The Army Corps of Engineers has started to increase flows exiting Dworshak Dam and Reservoir as part of the annual effort to ...

It’s currently at an elevation of 883 feet above sea level, and will drop even lower, until the reservoir is almost transformed back into a river. It's the lowest the reservoir will have been ...

It’s currently at an elevation of 883 feet above sea level, and will drop even lower, until the reservoir is almost transformed back into a river. It's the lowest the reservoir will have been ...

The river stayed there for 30 days to allow spring chinook smolts born in Quartzville Creek, above the reservoir, to migrate downstream to the ocean, in an effort to reestablish a wild salmon ...

Ben Brault rows through “Snow Hole” on the lower Salmon. Ben Herndon. Standing between the Pacific Ocean and this salmon Shangri-lah are eight large dams controlled by the federal government—four of ...

“The Lower Snake River dams emit more than 70 times that annually,” the report says. Oregon Capital Chronicle focuses on deep and useful reporting on Oregon state government, politics and policy.

Then in 2002, an estimated 70,000 salmon perished in the historic fish kill brought on by toxic algae washed down the river ...

The Corps recorded temperatures in the lower river that reached 60 degrees, which can result in mortality to salmon eggs. “We saw temperatures spike, and that’s a real problem for salmon ...

Mr. Leslie is the author of “Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment.” Mr. Gale is a photographer based in Portland, Ore. Completion of the world’s ...

To free salmon stuck behind dams in Oregon’s Willamette River Valley, here’s what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has in mind: Build a floating vacuum the size of a football field with enough ...

Then in 2002, an estimated 70,000 salmon perished in the historic fish kill brought on by toxic algae washed down the river from the reservoirs that bred the deadly stuff.

Over the past weekend, roughly 35 dead Chinook salmon were observed on a 40-mile stretch of the Lower Klamath River. The Yurok Tribe’s Fisheries Department determined the fish had suffocated due ...