A Valentine’s Day spring chinook salmon made the first 2023 crossing of Willamette Falls on Tuesday. The adult hatchery fish joined one other “first” salmon recently across Bonneville Dam.

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The fish were seen gathering in the holding pool at the top. The ladder is a vital part of the salmon spawning season. It allows the fish in the American Rivers to enter the hatchery.

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde reacquired the Chankawan site in 2016 through the Willamette Wildlife Mitigation Program. McClary said it had a lot of invasive species and was not well ...