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The campaign to halt the proliferation of Northern pike in Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir behind Grand Coulee Dam, is intensifying, state and tribal fish biologists reported to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council in November.

As the climate warms and polar ice continues to melt, sea levels will rise and estuary shorelines, including those along the lower Columbia River, will be inundated. Whether that’s a little or a lot is a matter of speculation, of

While white sturgeon populations in the Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam are stable, they're also targeted by the growing sea lion population and their spawning can be affected by dam operations upstream.

Jennifer Light, the Council’s Regional Technical Forum manager, has been elected chair of the 26-member energy efficiency advisory committee.

Just a dozen miles northwest of downtown Portland, a cornucopia of wildlife, notably song birds and more than 200,000 migrating waterfowl annually, inhabit the low-lying, marshy backwaters of the Shillapoo Wildlife Area, part of the Vancouver Lake lowlands adjacent to

As envisioned in the Northwest Power Act, the benefits of the federal power system would be shared by all of the region's consumers, but achieving that vision has proved elusive.

Even in the hydropower-rich Pacific Northwest it’s not possible to have a carbon-free electric power system using today’s technology, according to Council analyses for the Draft Seventh Northwest Power Plan. In fact, the cost of even getting close would be