The spillway at Lower Monumental Dam in Washington on the Snake River. The vast majority of salmon are getting up, over, around and through the four lower Snake River dams even as legal challenges ...

Wild spring chinook and steelhead from the Snake River continue to struggle while fall chinook are one of the bright spots in ...

Breaching the Snake River dams is one major way to protect salmon, according to a final federal report announced on Friday on salmon and steelhead recovery in the Columbia River Basin.

If four Lower Snake River dams were breached to support salmon recovery, the energy, irrigation, recreation and other benefits they provide to the Pacific Northwest could be replaced for $10.3 ...

A new draft report released Thursday called change in the Lower Snake River inevitable. The draft report will guide U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee as they ...

Large dams are no longer being built in the U.S. In fact, they are being removed, especially in the Northwest, with a 100% success rate in improving fish runs. | Opinion ...

On the banks of the Snake River in far eastern Washington, sockeye salmon have had a rough summer. The water behind the last major concrete dam they have to swim past is way too hot. “It’s ...

It would also doom to extinction several salmon runs in the Columbia/Snake River system and the southern resident orcas of the Salish Sea. Risch and Newhouse extol the supposed economic and power ...

WASHINGTON, USA — You will be able to harvest Chinook salmon in different areas of the Snake River. You have to follow all of the rules within the areas while fishing. Here is a list of the ...

Government reports released during the Biden administration acknowledged the hydropower system’s harm to salmon stocks and Native nations, as well as the ways removing four lower Snake River dams ...