April 23, 2017
Updated: Idaho's Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer: Overview and Developments
The past winter was a record year for recharge in Idaho's Eastern Snake Plain. With support from the state legislature, recharge efforts…
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Salmon & rivers
The news blog reposted a steady stream of Columbia Basin fish stories: run counts, hatchery programs, predator control, fish passage at the dams, and the long court fight over the federal hydropower biological opinions. Read together they show how closely irrigation, power and fish were tied in the region.
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April 11, 2014
Wanapum: Multiple fracture causes ruled out
Central Washington’s Grant County Public Utility District announced that the foundation below Wanapum Dam was not a factor in creating the fracture…
March 14, 2014
Tropical Pacific warming patterns, winds hint at El Niño
At least one particular climatic condition that seems to influence weather conditions in the Northwest, as well as around the globe, has…
February 10, 2012
BPA proposal to compensate wind generators
The Bonneville Power Administration has announced a proposal for compensating wind energy producers that are served by the federal power…
February 10, 2012
NW states want tougher Lake Mead Quagga inspections
Northwest states and Canadian provinces have launched a letter-writing and lobbying campaign to assure that a $1 million appropriation line…
December 9, 2011
FERC calls BPA’s high power cutoff rule discriminatory
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has sided with wind generating companies in an order giving the Bonneville Power Administration 90…
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2014
- Irrigators seeking rarely used review on fish populations
- The Power of Hydro
- Study: Crude oil spills cause heart defects in marine fish
- Columbia Basin water runoff at 82 percent of average
- Study: Climate change and Columbia Basin streamflow
- Studying juvenile steelhead from release to adult return
- Scientists study Pacific’s climate-shaping ‘global chimney’
- Snake fish passages need ‘thermal-hydraulic’ features
2011
- 2011 Chinook, Steelhead harvest yields high numbers
- Debris from tsunami could reach west coast this winter
- Hanford Reach fall Chinook redd counts above average
- Land trust acquires Willamette conservation easements
- Selective traits in hatchery fish can occur in one generation
- WA issues first non-interruptible Columbia water rights
- Fishing trends hit predators hard, impact marine systems
- Terns, Cormorants consume 15-20% wild hatchery smolts
- Upper Deschutes anglers unhappy over water releases
- Biologists optimistic about Snake River Sockeye return
- Estuary’s Salmon-eating Tern colony produces no chicks
- Chairman Hastings’ statement on Judge Redden ruling
- Keeping Quaggas at bay, more ‘fouled’ boats identified
- Tribes support new Sea Lion removal effort
- Study: Danger of ‘trojan gene effect’ in modified Salmon
- Removing large fish triggers trophic cascade in ecosystems
- AFS again calls for breaching Snake River dams
- Virus forces euthanization of juvenile steelhead at hatchery
- Report: Ocean at risk of entering mass extinction phase
2009
- Largest spring Chinook return predicted in 2010
- Clearwater Coho project nets enough adults for eggs
- Hatchery aimed at restoring Salmon in Okanagan Basin
- Cascade snowpack declines despite no change in precip
- New ODFW site details spending by anglers, hunters
- Brown Pelican delisted, estuary hosts largest Pacific roost
- Ninth circuit panel hears arguments on lethal removal
- Study: farmers and floodwaters help native fish species
- Bill to study impacts of lower Snake dam removal
- Reducing rising water temps in lower Snake River
- H2-WHOA! Australian town bans the sales of bottled water
2008
- Groups challenge Lake Roosevelt drawdown and water rights
- Magnetic field: new theory how Salmon find birthplace
- One-third of China’s Yellow River polluted
- Alaska Salmon harvest: 146 million fish, $409 million value
- Predicting climate change impact on Salmon stocks
- Study examines separating Great Lakes, Mississippi Basin
- Polar Bears not threatened but jobs, economy, energy are
- Snake River sockeye are speedsters in ocean swimming
- Pinks, humpies defying past trends in Columbia River
- Dworshak failure alters flow, regime for migrating salmon
- FERC urged to slow down on estuary natural gas terminal
- Idaho releases plan to increase, conserve Snake white sturgeon
- NMFS must examine pesticide impacts on salmon
- Feds defend sea lion decision; take could be 22% of steelhead
- Reclamation reveals plan for Water for America Initiative
- Litigation only delays recovery, increases carbon footprint
- NOAA: seven stocks removed from overfishing list, none added
- More time for negotiations on Columbia dredging mitigation
- Spring chinook season shows increase over past three years
- Late runoff filling Dworshak for summer salmon migration
- Tribes start commercial fishery and direct sales to public
- Surprising surge of sockeye opens mainstem sport fishery
- NW families, businesses to invest billions more in salmon recovery
- Corps moves ahead on juvenile fish passage project
- ESA impact limits force shut-down of Columbia fish harvest
- NOAA: Western U.S. snowpack healthiest in decade