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While Ordered To Stop Summer Steelhead Hatchery Releases On North Santiam, Oregon Will Continue Program For Other Willamette Basin Rivers

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In a statement this week, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife noted the narrow impact of a recent District Court ruling that put a stop to the agency’s release of hatchery summer steelhead into a tributary of the Willamette River. The Sept. 14 opinion and order by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken in…

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A Founding Event’: First-Ever Recorded Nest For Any Sea Turtle Species On West Coast Observed In California

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Corps Awards $12 Million Design Contract For Fish Passage Facility At Idaho’s Albeni Falls Dam, Aim Is To Restore ESA Bull Trout In Pend Oreille River

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More Bad News On Columbia River Steelhead Return This Year, Less Than Half Of Preseason Forecast

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WDFW Issues Statement On Chehalis Tribes’ Intent To Cite Recreational Anglers On Section Of Chehalis River If Without Tribal Permit

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Study Of News Coverage Of Canada’s 2023 Wildfires Found More Explicit Connection Between Wildfires, Climate Change Than In The Past

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WSU Study Shows Alaska Soils Warming Quickly, With Temperatures Rising Fastest In Permafrost Region, Accelerates Climate Change

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BPA Proposes Rate Increase To Recover Lost Revenue From Spill For Salmon At Columbia/Snake River Dams

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Corps Awards $12 Million Design Contract For Fish Passage Facility At Idaho’s Albeni Falls Dam, Aim Is To Restore ESA Bull Trout In Pend Oreille River

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District officials have awarded a $12,580,830 contract for the full design of a fish passage facility at Albeni Falls Dam at Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille. The future fish passage facility will work to restore the locally extinct bull trout population downstream of Albeni Falls Dam, and provide upstream passage…

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More Bad News On Columbia River Steelhead Return This Year, Less Than Half Of Preseason Forecast

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Federal Court Halts Hatchery Summer Steelhead Releases In Oregon’s North Santiam River, Says Could Harm Declining Wild Winter Steelhead

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Harvest Managers Add More Salmon Fishing Days For Columbia River, Poorest Steelhead Run On Record Gets Another Downgrade

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Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Season Extended At Some Locations; Top Angler This Year Nets $133,000

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Columbia River Steelhead In Trouble? 2026 Shaping Up To Be ‘One Of The Poorest Steelhead Returns In Modern History’

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This Month in 2006 | CHINOOK FISHING GOING GANGBUSTERS, AND HITTING ESA LIMITS

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BPA Reverses Decision To End SAFE Hatchery Program Funding By Agreeing To One-Year Extension; Move Offers Time For Alternative Funding

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This Month in 2016 | Clues From Prehistoric Arid Periods In California: Is State’s Extended Drought The New Normal?

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Clues from prehistoric droughts and arid periods in California show that today’s increasing greenhouse gas levels could lock the state into drought for centuries, according to a study led by UCLA professor Glen MacDonald.

Study Details Impressive Return Of Chinook Salmon To Reconnected Habitat In Klamath River Basin Two Years After Dam Removal

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This Month in 2021 | Upper Missouri River Basin Study Identifies Strategies For Meeting Water Demands During Climate Change; Adjusting To Changing Runoff Patterns

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Groundwater Pumping Can Reduce Streamflow For Salmon; Study Looks At How Cannabis Farming In California Dries Up Streams In Summer

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Willamette Valley Drought Results In Low Federal Reservoirs, Balancing Act For Numerous Water Uses; ‘Worst Year Since 1949’

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Cold Water (44 Degrees) From Dworshak Reservoir On North Fork Clearwater Keeping Lower Snake Cooler For Migrating Salmon

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Draft Report On Future Water Supply Says Columbia Basin Groundwater Levels, Including Deep Aquifers, At Risk Of Decline; Prepare For Less Water In 2040s

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Reaching The Kids: New WDFW Kindergarten Curriculum Introduces Students To  Wildlife, Habitat

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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this month a new kindergarten curriculum centered around “Many Places, Many Lives,” an illustrated poetry collection that introduces students to wildlife of Washington and the habitats where they live. This new lesson bundle is part of the Department’s Wild Washington curricula: standards-based unit plans designed for kindergarten,…

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This Month in 2006 | GROUPS WANT MORE DETAILS ON FLOW AUG IN UPPER SNAKE REMAND

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Birds And Salmon: Northwest Power/Conservation Council Gets The Stats On Avian Predation Of ESA Salmon Smolts

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Drought Conditions Pushing Bears Into Places Normally Wouldn’t Visit When Natural Foods Abundant; IDFG Seeing More Bear Reports Than Usual

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ODFW Responding To First Known Cases Of Respiratory Pathogen In John Day River Bighorn Sheep Herd, Exploring Options

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This Month in 2006 | CHINOOK FISHING GOING GANGBUSTERS, AND HITTING ESA LIMITS

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City Life: UW Research Looks At Why Urban Coyote Density Higher Than In Wild Areas, 9 Times Higher In Seattle Than Northeast Washington

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A Founding Event’: First-Ever Recorded Nest For Any Sea Turtle Species On West Coast Observed In California

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Above photo: Olive ridley sea turtle near Seal Beach in Orange County, CA. Credit: Huntington Beach Fire Department An olive ridley sea turtle was observed digging a nest and laying eggs on the beach near Seal Beach, in Orange County, California on September 16, 2026. This is the first-ever recorded nest for any sea turtle…

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Study Of News Coverage Of Canada’s 2023 Wildfires Found More Explicit Connection Between Wildfires, Climate Change Than In The Past

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WSU Study Shows Alaska Soils Warming Quickly, With Temperatures Rising Fastest In Permafrost Region, Accelerates Climate Change

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This Month in 2006 | GROUPS WANT MORE DETAILS ON FLOW AUG IN UPPER SNAKE REMAND

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Beaver Dam Analogues: Research Shows How ‘BDAs’ Increase Juvenile Salmon Survival, Adult Returns In Parched Klamath Basin Creeks

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NOAA Fisheries Tracking Indicators That Will Signal El Nino’s Arrival On West Coast, Likely To Be Very Strong

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Coastal Squeeze: UBC Review Shows How Rising Seas Threaten Shorebirds, Urges Planners To Give Coastal Wetlands Room To Grow Inland

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Pacific Salmon Recovery Bright Spot: Habitat Work, Recent Cooler Ocean Temperatures A Boon For Hood Canal Summer-Run Chum

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WDFW, Cowlitz Tribe, Others Reintroduce Spring Chinook Salmon Into Upper North Fork Toutle River, First Time Since Mount St. Helens Eruption

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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, in coordination with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, U.S. Forest Service, and conservation partners, have reintroduced spring Chinook salmon into the upper North Fork Toutle River watershed within the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument for the first time since the 1980 volcanic eruption. In June, WDFW and project…

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This Month in 2016 | Burns Paiute Tribe Malheur River Resident Fish Program Sets The Table For Possible Return Of Salmon

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Tribes Warn ‘Run Sizes Not Large Enough To Support Treaty Rights’ As Harvest Managers Set Fall Chinook Fishing Dates

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This Month in 2016 | After Nearly 100 Years, Salmon Fishing Returns To Upper Malheur River For Burns Paiute Tribe

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FERC Issues License For Proposed Pump Storage Project Near John Day Dam, Tribes, Conservation Groups Vow Continued Opposition

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As Dispute Over Fish Accord Funds Lingers, BPA Says It Hopes To Continue Talks On Long-Term Funding For Fish/Wildlife Projects

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BPA’s Columbia Basin Fish Accords (Salmon Recovery Projects) With States, Tribes Expire; Future Agreements, Use Of Carryover Funds Uncertain

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Plaintiffs Return To Federal Court To Continue Legal Battle Over Columbia Basin Salmon Recovery, Judge Lifts Stay

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Birds And Salmon: Northwest Power/Conservation Council Gets The Stats On Avian Predation Of ESA Salmon Smolts

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Water birds in the Columbia River basin consume large numbers of out-migrating juvenile salmon and steelhead every year. Three government management plans targeting four avian predator breeding colonies have met with mixed results, according to a recent report by Northwest experts.

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Columbia River Steelhead In Trouble? 2026 Shaping Up To Be ‘One Of The Poorest Steelhead Returns In Modern History’

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Beaver Dam Analogues: Research Shows How ‘BDAs’ Increase Juvenile Salmon Survival, Adult Returns In Parched Klamath Basin Creeks

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This Month in 2021 | UBC Study: Climate Change Likely To Leave Arctic Predators With Shrinking Diet, Less Energy Gained For Foraging

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University Of British Columbia Study Details Why Illegal Industrial Ocean Fishing So Hard To Stop: Subsidies, Fragmented Enforcement

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American Meteorological Society’s State Of Climate Report Shows Greenhouse Gas, Ocean Levels, Ocean Heat Hit Record Levels In 2025

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This Month in 2006 | RESEARCH USES DNA TO IDENTIFY OCEAN SALMON’S HOME RIVER

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This Month in 2021 | Study: Baby Marine Turtles’ Stomachs Packed With Plastic Debris, For Pacific Green Turtles Up To Nearly 1 Percent Body Mass

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BPA Proposes Rate Increase To Recover Lost Revenue From Spill For Salmon At Columbia/Snake River Dams

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The Bonneville Power Administration has filed an expedited rate case, seeking a $250 million rate increase that could result in a rise of 6.3 percent in its customers’ wholesale power rates for the remainder of its 2026-28 rate period. The federal power marketing agency said the proposed increase is to recover additional costs caused when…

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UW Study Shows Past Fossil Fuel Emissions Will Continue To Create ‘Climate Disasters’ For Years To Come

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Group Seeks To Intervene To Oppose Proposed Underwater Data Center Off Maine Coast, Says Threatens Marine Wildlif

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This Month in 2006 | GROUPS WANT MORE DETAILS ON FLOW AUG IN UPPER SNAKE REMAND

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This Month in 2006 | AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY PUBLISHES ‘SALMON 2100’ BOOK

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Study Shows Outfitting Wind Turbines With New Audio Deterrent System Can Reduce Raptor Collisions

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This Month in 2006 | ADVISORY GROUP NAMED FOR WASHINGTON’S COLUMBIA RIVER PLAN

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WDFW Issues Statement On Chehalis Tribes’ Intent To Cite Recreational Anglers On Section Of Chehalis River If Without Tribal Permit

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The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation have indicated they may be citing non-tribal members for fishing within an approximately 10-mile section of the Chehalis River if non-tribal members do not obtain a $500 boat fishing permit or $45 bank fishing permit from the tribe. In a statement, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife…

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This Month in 2006 | GROUPS WANT MORE DETAILS ON FLOW AUG IN UPPER SNAKE REMAND

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This Month in 2021 | USFWS Proposes Removing Famous Snail Darter From ESA Listing, Populations In Four States

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WDOE Issues Notice Of Environmental Violations In Longview Tank Failure, Untreated White Liquor Reached Columbia River

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This Month in 2016 | Bill Includes Provision To Return ‘Ancient One’ (Kennewick Man) To ‘Appropriate Resting Place’

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Murkowski Introduces ‘Fisheries Science Modernization Act’ Allowing NOAA Fisheries To Incorporate E-DNA Into Science Programs, Stock Assessments

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Trump Administration Proposes Throwing Out Roadless Area Rule For National Forests, In PNW Key Habitat For Salmon, Steelhead

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This Month in 2016 | Cooler Water Continues To Flow In Lower Snake River; Fish Ladder Cooling Now Also At Little Goose

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