Yakama Nation celebrates the salmon-saving Richland causeway removal

“The success of the causeway removal project will magnify benefits to the whole Yakima River system for salmon,” he said. The Army Corps of Engineers — in partnership with Washington state agencies, ...
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Managing the Columbia River: Instream Flows, Water Withdrawals, and Salmon Survival

The Columbia River basin consists of several different physiographic regions. There are alpine and subalpine environments in its mountainous regions (the Cascades, Rockies, and related subchains), an ...
OPB

Salmon advocates seek injunction to change Columbia River dam operations

Nicholas K. Geranios / AP Environmental groups and the State of Oregon are seeking a court injunction to force federal dams on the Columbia River to lower reservoirs and increase the amount of water ...
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Judge orders changes to Columbia and Snake river dam operations to help 'disappearing' salmon

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest in order to help salmon, saying the ...
The Inlander

Decades after it was initially promised, the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program delivers Columbia River water to Central Washington farmers

Like most farmers in the Columbia Basin, Roger Bailie has been thinking about water for most of his life. In 1915, his family began operating a dryland wheat farm, relying only on the year's rain to ...
The Columbian

Spring Chinook salmon season ramping up on Columbia River

Spring Chinook fishing on the Columbia River is set to end after April 8, and although the fishery got off to a slow start, river conditions are favorable, and catches are beginning to improve. In an ...