The famed runs of salmon are expected to return after two dams are removed but will they be as big?
The Elwha Dam and Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha River of the Olympic Peninsula were built in violation of an 1890 law which required fish passage facilities on dams “wherever food fish are wont […]
Continue Reading →This is very good news!! They were almost extinct 15 years ago.
Sockeye numbers reach highest level in decades. A total of 386 sockeye salmon had arrived in the Sawtooth Valley by Tuesday [August 19]. By JASON KAUFFMAN, Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer
Continue Reading →Endangered sockeye salmon beat projections in Columbia River. AP. Idaho Statesman.
After the collapse of the spring chinook salmon run into the Sacramento River this year, there was fear it would be general; but the sockeye salmon run bound for interior Oregon, […]
Continue Reading →Agencies issue plan to run Columbia dams, conserve salmon. By Jeff Bernard. Associated Press.
It is very expensive, but does not remove the major problem — the dams on the lower Snake River. It may or may not meet the demands of U.S. District Judge James Redden who has been very hostile to past […]
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