NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH! Please watch for this ad in the paper, learn something new, and share it with your friends, neighbors and relatives. The message is a call-out to Senator Murray and Governor Inslee of Washington State informing our elected officials of the crisis situation surrounding the critically endangered Southern Resident orcas. […]
December 14, 2017 According to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, in the 1950s and 1960s, 40,000 B-run steelhead crossed the Washington Waterpower dam near the former Potlatch mill at Lewiston. Sawmill workers were known to catch steelhead on their lunch breaks. That was before the four lower Snake River dams existed. After dam […]
Audit: Port of Lewiston’s annual operating loss tops $134,000 Entity’s net position rose to $24.8 million in fiscal year 2017 Lewiston Morning Tribune at lmtribune.com December 14, 2017 BY ELAINE WILLIAMS Tax dollars continue to be a key component of the Port of Lewiston’s budget. The port had an operating loss of $134,220 in the […]
NOAA recommends focusing on habitat and hatcheries; dam breaching possible future strategy Lewiston Morning Tribune at lmtribune.com December 13, 2017 By ERIC BARKER The federal government released in-depth recovery plans for Snake River spring and summer chinook, fall chinook and steelhead Tuesday – the first such plans completed since the fish were placed under Endangered […]
In 2017 the fish returns at Lower Granite dam are down for all categories compared to both the 10 year average and 2016. A total of 142,527 salmon and steelhead returned to Lower Granite Dam in 2017, a 35% reduction from 2016, which followed a 33% reduction from 2015 to 2016. These precipitous declines should […]
Lewiston Morning Tribune Letter to the Editor 12-10-17 A Huge Price to Pay Cole Riggers, responding to your recent letter in the Lewiston Tribune, are you blind to the costs you and other “captive shippers” impose on your neighbors, other Northwest citizens and federal taxpayers so you can barge wheat on the Snake River? Taxpayers […]
Lewiston Morning Tribune Letter to the Editor November 28th, 2017 Farmers don’t need dams I often read barging wheat on the lower Snake River is critically important to maintaining wheat production in eastern Washington and north central Idaho. Without Snake River barging, so I’m told, wheat farmers couldn’t survive. I’m puzzled. Farmers in the Inland […]
The Columbia Basin Bulletin: Weekly Fish and Wildlife News www.cbbulletin.com October 13, 2017 Issue No. 847 Draft Salmon Survival Report: Smolt To Adult Returns For Snake River Fish Remain Below NW Power/Conservation Council Goals The number of wild Snake River adult spring/summer chinook, measured as a percentage of juveniles that left the river and returned […]
Overall Chinook Returns as of 9/29/17: 2017: 53,044 2016: 103,355 10 year average: 106,942 Spring Chinook Returns 2017: 27,357 2016: 62,050 10 year average: 62,403 Summer Chinook Returns 2017: 8,952 2016: 12,110 10 year average: 17,232 Fall Chinook Returns (as of 9/29/17, run is still going) 2017: 16,733 2016: […]
August 30, 2017 Tragedy of the Snake River Commons The law locks up both man and woman Who steals a goose from off the commons But let’s the greater felon loose Who steals the commons from the goose. […]