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Council Quarterly Past Issues

Fall 2007 (1.3mb PDF)

  • The Northwest’s CO2 Footprint: Determining the Impact, and Difficulty in Trying to Lessen It
  • Fish and Wildlife Program Amendments Begin
  • Scientists Share Latest Research Results with Fish and Wildlife Policy-makers
  • From Landfill Gas to Renewable Energy - Coffin Butte
  • NW/Q&A: Sakura Urban Concepts
  • Success stories: Sagebrush Flats

Summer 2007 (1.7mb PDF)

  • The Impact of Population Growth on Fish and Wildlife
  • Northwest Power Supply Is Adequate, but Potentially Expensive
  • Innovative Projects Would Test New Methods of Enhancing Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Survival
  • Modeling As An Open-Ended Exercise: A Footnote to the Fifth Power Plan
  • NW/Q&A: Brian Lipscomb
  • Success stories: Lake Pend Oreille

Spring 2007 (560k PDF)

  • Climate Change in the Northwest
  • Climate Change Impacts Could Affect Columbia River Hydropower Generation
  • NW/Q&A: Philip Mote
  • Success stories: Swan River Valley

Winter 2007 (890k PDF)

  • Winds of Change: Montana taps its wind power potential, boosting the Northwest supply of renewable energy
  • Legislation Encourages Renewable Energy Developments in Northwest States
  • Report from Beijing
  • July 2006 Heat Wave Had Lessons for Energy Planners
  • Summer High Temperatures Translate Into a Wake-up Call for Energy Planners
  • NW/Q&A: Rachel Shimshak
  • Success stories: John Day Basin

Fall 2006 (890k PDF)

  • Rapid Development of Wind Power Prompts Regional Plan for Its Integration Into Power Supply
  • What States Are Doing to Move Toward a Clean Energy Future
  • Making the Change: Energy Trust Programs Help Consumers Save Energy and Invest in Renewable Resources
  • Lake Fertilization Appears to Benefit Fish in Idaho and British Columbia
  • Summer High Temperatures Translate Into a Wake-up Call for Energy Planners
  • Jack Robertson on the Hydrogen Revolution
  • Success stories: Methow Valley

Summer 2006 (1.4mb PDF)

  • Washington transfers Klickitat hatchery to Yakama Nation
  • Connecting communities through education
  • NW/Q&A: Senator Daniel J. Evans
  • Success stories: Sandy River

Spring 2006 (710k PDF)

  • Council proposes voluntary standard for westwide power system reliability
  • Celebrating a milestone: The Northwest Power Act
  • Council supports flood control study, but not ratepayer funding
  • Two experts offer perspectives on decoupling energy sales from profits to encourage conservation investments
  • Coal gasification: An old technology gains new ground
  • NW/Q&A: Terry Courtney, Warm Springs Confederated Tribes
  • Success stories: Kootenai River sturgeon recovery

Winter 2006 (860k PDF)

  • Wind power leads construction of new Northwest power plants
  • Warming trend: How climate change could affect the Northwest
  • Independent scientists say survival benefit of summer spill won't be known for several years
  • The China connection: Lessons in growth from the Northwest
  • NW Energy Coalition honors Council's Fifth Power Plan
  • NW/Q&A: Steve Fick, commercial fisherman and owner of Fishhawk Fisheries
  • Success stories: WyEast RCDA

Fall 2005 (1.4m PDF)

  • Independent scientists recommend ways to improve decision-making
  • Puget Sound Energy’s latest wind project adds to the region’s renewables
  • Federal judge gives NOAA Fisheries one year to write a new Biological Opinion
  • Science board to review court-ordered 2005 spill operation
  • NW/Q&A: Gary Loomis, founder of Fish First
  • Success stories: Streamnet Library

Summer 2005 (320k PDF)

  • Biological Opinion litigation affects only one part of larger fish and wildlife mitigation effort
  • NW/Q&A: Marilyn Showalter, Executive Director, Public Power Council
  • Council plans level funding for most fish and wildlife projects in 2006; prepares for 2007
  • Success stories: Yakima River
  • Fish managers to assess reasons for the lower than expected Spring fish run

Spring 2005 (680k PDF)

  • Making the case for conservation
  • Power supply adequate despite dry conditions
  • Raising the price of BPA power would cost ratepayers $1.7 billion
  • Low Spring Chinook run vexes fish managers
  • Partnership will coordinate aquatic research monitoring
  • Success stories: Colville Tribes Wildlife Mitigation
  • Proposal to limit BPA borrowing could result in higher power rates

Winter 2005 (1m PDF)

  • Avian predation on juvenile salmon and steelhead
  • Conservation program benefits Idaho sockeye and chinook
  • Council adopts 23 subbasin plans
  • Flow and salmon survival
  • Success story: Flathead River

Fall 2004 (400k PDF)

  • Subbasin plans proposed for amendment into fish and wildlife program
  • Federal proposal for endangered salmon will rely on structural improvements at dams to aid fish passage, predator control, and habitat improvements
  • Council proposes plan to reduce risk of future energy shortages and high prices
  • Columbia River Forum would address international water management issues
  • Success story: Colville Reservation

Summer 2004 (640k PDF)

  • Getting fish past the dams: Technology and better understanding of fish survival help improve their odds
  • Subbasin plans submitted; review process begins
  • Bonneville's proposal on its future role
  • New energy efficiency standards for refrigerators
  • Seeking comments on hatchery reform proposals
  • September symposium on innovative energy efficiency and transmission
  • Success story: Therriault Creek

Spring 2004 (570k PDF)

  • Primer on the 5th Power Plan: A Guide for our Energy Future
  • Drought, low river runoff could boost power prices
  • Recommendations for the future role of Bonneville Power Administration
  • Success story: Kootenai River

Winter 2004 (660k PDF)

  • Wind power: From niche to mainstream
  • Fisheries Society honors Nez Perce and Forest Service for habitat restoration projects
  • Walla Walla Subbasin: A community plans for the future
  • Subbasin planning update
  • Success stories: Crims and Walker Islands

Fall 2003 (380k PDF)

  • Fish hatchery review will inform recommendations for future operations
  • Council pushes for new funding agreement for fish and wildlife
  • Bonneville's future role in supplying the region's electricity
  • Council asks for spill tests at dams in the Summer of 2004
  • Recent trend continues: most 2003 salmon and steelhead runs above average
  • Planning the Northwest’s energy future
  • Success story: Umatilla River

Summer 2003 (610k PDF)

  • Strong Columbia River salmon runs predicted
  • Applying conservation and renewable resources principles in Walla Walla
  • Federal agencies reject summer flow changes
  • Success story: Pine Creek Ranch

Spring 2003 (410k PDF)

  • Amendments to the Fish and Wildlife program call for tests of alternative dam operations
  • Conservation achievements since 1980 could be repeated by 2025
  • President’s budget proposes $589 million for Columbia Basin fish & wildlife in Fiscal Year 2004
  • Conservation's future
  • Success story: Okanogan River

Winter 2003 (480k PDF)

  • Short-term power supply is adequate
  • Proposals to change river and dam operations
  • Helping Bonneville through fiscal crisis, and recommendations on Bonneville's future
  • Energy conservation made big gains in 2001
  • Success story: Hood River

Fall 2002 (450k PDF)

  • Learning about salmon at the river's edge
  • Future of Bonneville Power Administration
  • Standard Market Design
  • RAND report on region's energy future
  • Proposals to change river and dam operations (draft mainstem amendments)
  • Success story: Hungry Horse Mitigation Program

Summer 2002 - Special Hatchery section (580k PDF)
Spring 2002
Winter 2002 (730k PDF)
July 2001 - also as 11x17" 1.7M PDF file
March 2001 - also as 11x17" 5.0M single PDF file
June 2000 - Special Green Power issue

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