Everything about the Bonneville Dam is big. The dams themselves — there are actually three, stretching between islands to cut ...

A December report from the Northwest Power and Conservation Council shows a rolling 10-year average return of 2.3 million ...

The Northwest Power Planning Council was formed in 1981 in response to concerns in the area about the future availability of ...

Federally protected Steller sea lions ate more salmon on average than in years past at Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River, biologists in Oregon say. A second sea lion captured by wildlife ...

According to my calculations, there are 43 days left before spring officially arrives. And there are only 37 days until ...

“Increased salmon and steelhead abundance in the Columbia River Basin – especially above Bonneville Dam – over the past 40 years marks important progress,” Council Member Louie ...

In 2024, 121,000 adult spring chinook bound for tributaries upstream of Bonneville Dam returned to the Columbia River. That’s a number large enough to provide fisheries but they tended to come ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, four dams were placed on the lower Snake River as key final pieces of a “great national project”—started in the 1930s with building of the Bonneville Dam on the ...