Crew members from The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bluebell, commissioned in 1944, help improve safety along rivers in Portland ...

The Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. The Bureau of Reclamation are indefinitely delaying public meetings that were to begin next week in advance of writing a new environmental impact statement for ...

The U.S. Forest Service says the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area sees about two million visitors annually.

If you like wildflowers and live in the Pacific Northwest, now is the time to hit the trails because Springtime is prime time ...

"These hydrologic oddities illustrate how much we have still to learn about Earth's dynamic surface," researchers said in a ...

Columbia artist Blue Sky’s enormous fire hydrant sculpture sits in a field after being removed by the city. But his huge chain connecting downtown buildings and other works are still on display.

Concerning the dam removal debate, there are a number of facts which should be undisputed. 1. The Snake River dams have reduced the salmon runs. 2. At the same time salmon runs in Washington rivers, ...

Green filled milk jugs with shad fry and took them onto a transcontinental train. After a seven-day journey, he arrived in California with 10,000 little fish still alive, and he released them into the ...

In northern Idaho, we have historically enjoyed an abundance of water. A growing population, federal government policy, ...

Marvin Entel’s letter (Tribune, Feb. 16) regarding habitat loss for salmon and steelhead was interesting, but a large part of the story was not mentioned.

As the head of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Columbia Department, George Simpson understood American settlers followed missionaries who followed fur trappers. Seeing his Columbia territory as rightly Bri ...

As a retired state biologist, I spent a long, productive and enjoyable career working for Idahoans to preserve, protect and perpetuate all of their wildlife. But one of my biggest frustration’s was ...