HAILEY, Ida. – Western Watersheds Project yesterday entered into a settlement agreement with the Forest Service that gives salmon, steelhead, and bull trout spawning habitats in the upper East Fork […]
Dams torn down and after a hundred years salmon and steelhead immediately begin to spawn
Earlier this year two dams on the Elwha River in Washington state that had blocked migration of salmon and steelhead for over a hundred years were finally removed. Within just months […]
Elwha River restoration project set to begin in Washington
The Elwha River, on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, flows out of Olympic National Park. It was dammed in the early part of the last century in violation of an 1890 law […]
Resurgent Northwest salmon show dam ‘spill’ is better than barging
The fish do better in the river than they do in a barge. I’m not really a fan of Rocky Barker because I think he is biased towards the collaborative […]
Feds: No major changes for Columbia Basin salmon
Judge Redden said the Bush Plan for salmon wasn’t good enough, Obama thinks it is. Well, here is another example of how the Obama Administration has followed the lead of […]
Panel recommends spilling, barging of salmon
Mixed strategy recommended by independent panel for 2010 NOAA Fisheries wanted to barge all of the salmon from the Snake River around the dams and not spill any water over […]
Excellent Idaho steelhead season is getting underway
These sea-run rainbow trout are now moving well up the Salmon and Clearwater Rivers- The season has been good so far. Now the fish are moving well upstream. I see […]
Steelhead counts at Bonneville Dam on the Colombia River shatter one-day records !!
Of course, you can’t truly count them until they are in Idaho rivers, but so far a very strong run- For those not familiar with the Columbia River and its […]