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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

With a unified Republican federal government, my colleagues and I in Congress and in the Trump administration are working to ...

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 ...

For more than a century, outsiders have come for what’s on this land. First, it was for gold. Today, it’s for lithium, a ...

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 ...

Lawmakers from Idaho and Washington have introduced a new bill to keep the four lower Snake River dams in place. The ...

Join us virtually on March 17, 2025, to learn more about our agency’s efforts in developing a strategy to achieve healthy water temperatures within the Columbia and Lower Snake rivers.