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The spring chinook run on the Snake River has just concluded, and this year was supposed to be consequential for the struggling fish. Four years ago, environmental activists wrote in these pages that ...
Virgil Holt Jr. reaches into the rushing water of Rapid River with a gaff pole and gently taps it along the rocky bottom as he draws it through a hole.
If we want to recover Idaho's wild salmon and steelhead runs, breaching the Lower Four Snake River Dams is the best conservation tool we have.
Trump just unraveled years of work on tribal rights, salmon and clean energy. So what happens next? Oregon Public Broadcasting | By Tony Schick Published June 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM PDT Kristyna ...
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday pulling the federal government out of a historical Columbia River management deal.
Chinooks are capable of a pinnacle landing, wherein the helicopter is half on the ground while the other half hovers off a cliff. How does that work?
Chinook tribal chair Tony Johnson, right with drum, and other members of the Chinook Nation gather outside the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Washington, ahead of a court hearing in January 2020.
Our Changing Planet is an ambitious natural history series examining the issues facing the earth’s most threatened ecosystems, and meeting the scientists and local conservationists fighting to ...
Final salmon fishing regulations are scheduled to be adopted in early June. Puget Sound In Marine Area 5 (Sekiu) and Marine Area 6 (East Strait of Juan de Fuca west of a true north/south line through ...
Chinook salmon are facing unprecedented challenges as their once-thriving populations struggle to survive. A new study published in the journal Ecosphere suggests that decades of human activities, ...
Deadly Harvest: The Hidden Costs Of Your Filet-O-Fish In one of the world’s most valuable fisheries, regulators with conflicts of interest are letting corporations off the hook.
Drawn by late-summer rains, hatchery-produced Chinook salmon are returning to the mouth of Whatcom Creek in downtown Bellingham, said the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) in a ...