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 […]
July 2017 July has been a rough month so far for endangered salmon and steelhead migrating through the lower Snake River. High air temperatures and lack of cloud cover have heated the reservoirs behind the four lower Snake River dams to 68 degrees and beyond. At such high water temperatures, the salmon migration slows and […]
Spring Chinook Salmon The spring Chinook run is over at Bonneville dam. The final tally: 2017: 83,624 2016: 137,215 10 yr avg: 150,783 Summer Chinook Salmon Summer returns are now in progress at Bonneville dam: 2017: 63,253 2016: 81,652 10 yr avg: 69,802 As if those numbers were not depressing enough… Sockeye Salmon The sockeye […]
Spring Chinook The spring Chinook run has come to an end on the lower Snake River. The finally tally for 2017 was dismal compared to last year and the 10 year average, with a 56% decline. 2017: 27,357 2016: 62,050 10 yr avg: 62,403 Summer Chinook The summer Chinook run is not fairing much […]
Policy Considerations: How and Why Breaching the Four Lower Snake Dams Can Happen This Year 1. The Corps of Engineers has inherent fiduciary responsibilities to insure existing projects continue to provide economic benefit, do not harm the environment and are technically sound throughout the project life. They do not need a Federal Judge to […]
Spring Chinook Salmon The spring Chinook salmon run continues on the lower Snake River. As of 6/11/17, 20,617 spring Chinook adults had passed Lower Granite Dam on their journey east to spawning grounds in Washington, Idaho and Oregon. In 2016, 58,602 fish had passed by this time. This was similar to the 10 year average […]