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    The Council works to protect and enhance fish and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin. Its Fish & Wildlife Program guides project funding by the Bonneville Power Administration.

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  1. Draft 2020 Addendum to the Council's Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program

    May 18, 2020 John Harrison
    The geographic scope of the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program is vast, from the Pacific Ocean to the mountains and plains of eastern Washington, northern and northeastern Oregon, most of Idaho, and a portion of western Montana.

  2. Council Seeks Comments On Recommendations To Amend The Columbia River Basin Fish And Wildlife Program

    Dec 17, 2018 John Harrison
    By the December 13 deadline, the Council received 51 sets of recommendations.

  3. Bonneville Funding Cuts Hit Fish And Wildlife Program Projects

    Dec 14, 2018 John Harrison
    The cuts are part of an effort by Bonneville to hold costs at or below the rate of inflation for the next 10 years.

  4. BPA Identifies First Potential Cuts in Budget for Council's Fish and Wildlife Program

    Jul 16, 2018 John Harrison
    The Bonneville Power Administration is identifying potential cuts in the budget of the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, including so far to water acquisitions and a net-pen salmon production program.

  5. Cost Savings

    Nov 9, 2017 John Harrison
    Fish and wildlife project savings will be redirected, saving money and protecting ratepayers from higher costs.

  6. BPA, Idaho sign agreement to benefit wildlife and habitat

    Sep 16, 2014 John Harrison
    The State of Idaho and the Bonneville Power Administration have agreed on a 10-year mitigation program that would resolve Idaho’s share of the impacts of Federal Columbia Rive

  7. Idaho, BPA propose wildlife settlement agreement

    Aug 7, 2014 John Harrison
    The state of Idaho and the Bonneville Power Administration have reached a tentative agreement on a 10-year mitigation program that would resolve issues about the effects of fede

  8. Idaho Takes Next Step in Sockeye Salmon Recovery

    Nov 6, 2013 John Harrison
      Adult sockeye ready to spawn in Redfish Lake after migrating 900 miles from the ocean. Completion of a new Snake River sockeye salmon hatchery in Idaho in December will inaug

  9. Idaho Decontamination System Aims to Prevent Spread of Invasive Mussels

    Mar 30, 2011 Carol Winkel
    The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation unveiled the first-of-its-kind boat wash decontamination system in a recent demonstration at the Boise, Idaho of
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