Category – Fish and wildlife

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The Northwest Power and Conservation Council approved a proposal by the Spokane Tribe of Indians to continue producing kokanee -- freshwater sockeye salmon -- and releasing the fish into Lake Roosevelt behind Grand Coulee Dam. Kokanee provide a culturally important

<ombumedia data-ombumedia="{"fid":"14936","link":"","link_options":0,"position":"default","view_mode":"full","title":"CRITFCCommissionMeetingNotes_Final.pdf","type":"image"}"></ombumedia>The Northwest Power and Conservation Council Members were asked to join the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) Commissioners Meeting in July 2013. Notes were taken of the meeting discussion. A follow-up meeting is planned for the Fall.

Meacham Creek in the Umatilla River Basin, northeast Oregon

The Council this week begins a once-every-five-years process of reviewing the largest regional fish and wildlife program in the nation, one that last year paid for nearly

In a presentation to the Council today, Portland State University researchers who have been studying the potential for freshwater mussels to take hold in the Columbia River Basin say water chemistry and temperature are sufficient, if not ideal, to support

A report on the importance of food webs to ecosystem health and fish restoration efforts in the Columbia River Basin, written by the Council's Independent Scientific Advisory Board last year, has recently been published as an article for an