This year’s run of endangered sockeye salmon into the Snake River is “effectively over” and any of the fish crossing Lower Granite Dam after July, the most upriver of the lower four Snake River dams, have almost no chance of reaching the Sawtooth Basin.
Groundwater pumped to irrigate cannabis crops in California’s Emerald Triangle can cause some streams that normally run year-round to dry up entirely during summer, say researchers from Simon Fraser University, the University of California, Berkeley and the United States Department of Agriculture.
The Bonneville Power Administration says it will stop funding its share of a program that supports the Select Area Fisheries Enhancement Program in the lower Columbia River as of September 30, the end of the federal power broker’s fiscal year.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins this week (Aug. 18) announced the U.S. Forest Service has filed a proposed rule to rescind in its entirety the national 2001 Roadless Area Conversation Rule, a tool environmentalists consider crucial in protecting the nation’s national forests.
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…
NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center has not changed its mission with the new administration in Washington D.C., Jeremy Rusin, Science Director at the Seattle-based agency, said at a meeting last week.
The Bonneville Power Administration says it will stop funding its share of a program that supports the Select Area Fisheries Enhancement Program in the lower Columbia River as of September 30, the end of the federal power broker’s fiscal year.
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have introduced legislation that they say would help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration better assess and protect fisheries.
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BPA Says Off-Channel Hatchery Salmon Program Not Meeting Agency Goals, Funding Halt Puts 7 Million Chinook, Coho In Production At Risk
/in 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWERThe Bonneville Power Administration says it will stop funding its share of a program that supports the Select Area Fisheries Enhancement Program in the lower Columbia River as of September 30, the end of the federal power broker’s fiscal year.