By Kimberly Cauvel Skagit Valley Herald Oct. 16 2015 Even with Endangered Species Act protection, two iconic Salish Sea species are struggling, and a newly formed alliance is calling attention to their plight. Read more…
By Chris Wood CEO Trout Unlimited (This article appeared in the Oct. 9 2015 edition of the Idaho Statesman) Idaho’s wild salmon and steelhead are in trouble. Scientists say that at least 2 percent of the young fish migrating to the sea (smolts) must survive and return as adults for Idaho’s salmon and steelhead stocks […]
By Gary Wockner EcoWatch Oct. 6 2015 As we stood on our boards and paddled away from the cove at Malpais and turned south past the wave-break, I felt a rush of what Costa Ricans call pura vida—“pure life.” Read more… Read a recent EPA report on High Methane Emissions from a Midlatitude Reservoir here…
by Scott Herning Southern Resident Killer Whale Chinook Salmon Initiative (This article appeared in the Oct. 14 2015 edition of The Journal of the San Juan Islands) Recently, a contingent of San Juan Islanders joined three hundred fishermen, Native Americans, farmers, orca activists, business owners and conservationists to advocate breaching four federal dams on the […]
On October 3 hundreds of Pacific Northwest residents are gathering to paddle on lower Granite Lake, the reservoir created by Lower Granite Dam, one of four destructive dams on the lower Snake River. All are welcome to join for this historic event. Click here to register and for more details. The point is to gather as […]
Two petitions are circulating this summer that can help bring about change for Northwest salmon, Puget Sound orcas and taxpayers whose dollars are being wasted supporting a broken status quo on the lower Snake River of eastern Washington. Though seeking the same outcomes, the petitions ask for different political tactics. The White House petition, which has […]
In its 2002 Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility Report, the Walla Walla District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vastly understated the costs of maintaining and operating four dams on the lower Snake River in eastern Washington State. The report concluded that modifications to these dams would result in the recovery of 13 species of […]
When dams come out, rivers heal and fish return–and it happens very fast. That’s according to a new study published this week in the journal Science. The study, co-authored by Forest Service Hydrologist Gordon Grant and U.S. Geological Survey Biologist Jeff Duda,was based on the growing number of case studies available. From 2006 to 2014, […]
Outdoor clothing company Patagonia took aim squarely at the lower Snake River’s four salmon-killing dams in ads released in Washington state newspapers April 23, 24 and 25. The ads, which feature the tagline “Don’t hold back,” show three completed dam removals on the Elwha and White Salmon rivers while also showing that Lower Granite, Little […]
Commercial shipping on the lower Snake River continues to decline–dramatically. The Port of Lewiston confirmed yesterday and officially announced today that it was indefinitely suspending container shipments after an international shipper said it would no longer use the Port of Portland on the Columbia River downstream. The Port of Lewiston’s business had constituted the only […]