Tag: salmon

  • Rare sockeye salmon get boost at Redfish Lake, Idaho

    450 sockeye salmon into the lake near Stanley, Idaho- Rare salmon get boost at Redfish. Sockeye released into lake after second summer of high returns. By Jon Duval. Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer. “no one has seen a sight like this since 1956. . .” I wish I could have been there. Wonderful! I hope…

  • A new twist in dam removal on the Snake River

    Recently Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) announced that in talks about salmon recovery that dam breaching should be on the table. It’s not an endorsement of dam breaching but it is a departure from former Senator Craig’s stance. On top of this development comes a letter to politicians signed by several business owners in Lewiston and…

  • Senator Crapo speaks forbidden words about Idaho salmon

    Crapo “Does that mean dam breaching must be on the table? Yes.” Senator Craig would never allow that kind of talk, nor would Idaho’s water political establishment. Crapo didn’t say he favored breaching the 4 salmon- killing dams on the lower Snake River in Washington State. He just said it had to be on the…

  • Idaho Fish and Game forecasting the largest salmon returns in years

    Great news! Will it pan out? Fish and Game forecasting the largest salmon returns in years. In other news, F&G will issue fewer moose tags and mountain goat permits in 2009 and 2010. By Roger Phillips. Idaho Statesman. More money and more political battling have been used to restore salmon (and steelhead) than any other…

  • Silent Fall: B.C.’s vanishing wild salmon means trouble for all

    This will certainly take down the great bears and orca– The irony is that B.C. did not dam its salmon streams like the United States did. Silent Fall. Posted By: Chris Genovali. B.C.’s vanishing wild salmon means trouble for all. Monday Magazine. . . . more Saving Wild Salmon, in Hopes of Saving the Orca.…

  • Rocky Barker: Goodbye Larry Craig, Bill Sali, Gordon Smith. Hello salmon solution?

    Pacific NW political retirement and defeats may break 20-year logjam on saving the salmon- Rocky Barker points out that the election outcome may have removed the obstacles to the conservationists’ solution of the sorry condition of salmon runs into Idaho, but breaching the navigation dams on the lower Snake River in Washington is still far…

  • Jeff Merkley's US Senate candidacy in Oregon is raising hopes among salmon fishers

    Recent polls show Jeff Merkely tied or ahead of GOP incumbent Gordon Smith who has supported the Bush Plan (keep the dams) on the lower Snake River in Washington state. This is a regional (Pacific Northwest) issue, not a Washington state issue. Most fishery biologists think worthwhile salmon recovery in Idaho can’t happen with these…

  • Governor Otter and others: Photo-op environmentalism

    They don’t do anything to restore the salmon runs, but they show up for photos when the small run of salmon finally makes it past Stanley, Idaho. View of the Idaho Mountain Express: photo-op environmentalism.

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