Recovering Chum Salmon
- July 13, 2017
- John Harrison
Chum salmon runs, once plentiful in the lower Columbia River, declined by about 99 percent over time but now are slowly rebuilding.
Category – Fish and wildlife
Research Revision
- June 15, 2017
- John Harrison
By focusing research, the Council will make better-informed decisions about projects that address the most important issues in fish and wildlife recovery.
Sturgeon Research
- June 15, 2017
- John Harrison
Increased funding aims to improve knowledge of the ancient, little-understood Columbia River White Sturgeon
Wildlife Haven
- June 13, 2017
- John Harrison
In the central Willamette Valley of Oregon, a conservation easement retired farming and is rapidly evolving ideal wildlife habitat
More Sea Lions, Fewer Fish
- June 09, 2017
- John Harrison
More sea lions and fewer spring Chinook salmon at Bonneville Dam this year was not good news for the fish.
Northwest Power Supply Should Be Adequate Through 2021
- June 09, 2017
- Carol Winkel
Supply should be adequate through 2020, but the region will need to add new capacity by 2021 to maintain adequacy.
The Colville Tribes celebrate the arrival of the first salmon
- May 26, 2017
- Laura Robinson
On May 19 the Colville Tribes hosted their annual First Salmon Ceremony at the Chief Joseph Hatchery, where the ceremony has been held since 2013.
U.S. Court Of Appeals rules for the Council in lawsuit over the 2014 Fish and Wildlife Program
- May 23, 2017
- John Harrison
On July 19, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a memorandum opinion rejecting all arguments made by petitioner Northwest Resource Information Center (NRIC) against the Council's decision to approve the 2014 Columbia
To Help Fish, You Need to Know Where They Are
- April 17, 2017
- Mark Walker
At the Council’s April meeting, research fisheries biologists Michael Young and Dan Isaak from the USDA Forest Service shared first-year results from an environmental DNA inventory of bull trout, the target of the most extensive effort to date to map
Fish Head Bounty
- March 24, 2017
- John Harrison
Northern pike, a voracious predator, are continuing to invade Lake Roosevelt, imperiling other fish species. There is a $10 per fish bounty to get them out of the lake.
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