Pacific Northwest tribes and the states of Washington and Oregon are conducting studies to determine the impact of removing ...

Should this bill become law, it would block any future efforts to remove those dams. It would also doom to extinction several salmon runs in the Columbia/Snake River system and the southern ...

But instead it gives short shrift to the only viable alternative for saving salmon and ultimately orcas — removing the four lower Snake River dams. “Instead of taking the one step identified by ...

Study Snake River salmon to death. Contrary to the implication in the article, the lower Snake River dams are not an economic asset, they are a liability. They bleed the Northwest and the nation ...

VandenHeuvel said breaching the four Snake River dams is an obvious choice. “The Snake River is so hot that we think the best and maybe only way to get to safe levels for salmon is to remove the four ...

The eel-like fish must pass eight dams to access hundreds of miles of historic spawning grounds along the Snake River. On the mainstem ... After that, though, salmon, steelhead and lamprey have ...

I take issue with Marjorie Millner’s letter (“Save salmon; breach dams,” Our Readers’ Views, Feb. 10). For starters, Millner has no idea or concept of just what the Snake River dams do ...

The number of dams, their collective height (400 feet⁠⁠) and the extent of potential river habitat that has been reopened to salmon (420 miles⁠⁠) are all unprecedented.⁠ The event is a ...

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Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho and Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington have recently introduced in Congress the Northwest Energy Security Act. This bill is a reaction to recent discussions about breaching the ...