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. […]
ACTION REQUIRED – PLEASE SPEAK UP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! BPA has raised power rates 28% in the last eight years! They don’t want to recognize that breaching the four Lower Snake River dams will help REDUCE the cost of power. What’s worse is that the pro-dam lobby and sympathetic politicians in the Northwest have […]
July 12, 2017 Cathy McMorris Rodgers, U. S. House of Representatives (WA-05) Jaime Herrera Beutler, U. S. House of Representatives (WA-3) Dan Newhouse, U.S. House of Representatives (WA-4) Kurt Schrader, U. S. House of Representatives (OR-05) Greg Walden, U. S. House of Representatives (OR-2) Greetings: You recently sponsored a bill in the […]
Idaho Fish & Game Scrambling to Fill Hatchery Quotas of Spring Chinook Abysmal run of fish to Clearwater River prompts use of nets and elite anglers to gather broodstock for hatcheries By Eric Barker of the Lewiston Tribune Idaho Fish and Game officials are taking some extraordinary measures to help ensure hatcheries on the Clearwater […]
Fish counts at Bonneville Dam below that of 2016 By Eric Barer of the Lewiston Tribune July 14, 2017 By all accounts, 2017 was never supposed to be a banner year for steelhead The A-run is forecast to be a little better than last year’s dismal return – which some biologists called a complete year-class […]
The State of the Snake River It’s the middle of July, 2017. How is the salmon migration going? A few lawmakers in the Pacific Northwest have been telling us how great the salmon recovery is going and how valuable the four lower Snake River dams are to the nation. Let’s take a look at the […]