Since 1997, the Columbia Basin Bulletin has kept concerned readers informed…
…about significant developments related to salmon and steelhead recovery and other important Columbia/Snake River Basin fish and wildlife issues.
For 20 years, the Columbia Basin Bulletin served as a stakeholder information tool supported with Bonneville Power Administration fish and wildlife funds through the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Regional Fish and Wildlife Program. Since the termination of that funding in 2018, the Columbia Basin Bulletin has been 100% member-supported. We encourage anyone who is concerned about the health of the Columbia and Snake River watersheds and associated fish, wildlife and environmental issues to become a member and support us in our mission.
We believe it is important…
…that stakeholders continue to have access to complete, fair and independent news coverage of the key developments in fish and wildlife policymaking, litigation, research, river operations, harvest management, fish passage, habitat restoration and all the other myriad policy and environmental issues associated with the Columbia River, its Basin, and the surrounding environment.
The Columbia Basin Bulletin offers a free newsletter, delivered by e-mail to subscribers interested in timely, straightforward, complete news about Basin fish and wildlife issues. The newsletter will keep you posted on the important stories published on the website. If not already a subscriber, please consider signing up with the sign up box on the home page.
The Columbia Basin Bulletin website offers continuous postings of key news and information about Columbia/Snake River Basin fish and wildlife issues, along with online archives reaching back to 2003. The Columbia Basin Bulletin Archive is the most complete news record and background of Columbia/Snake River Basin salmon recovery and other Basin natural resource issues available anywhere.
We urge you to consider becoming a Columbia Basin Bulletin Member.
Your membership will allow us to continue reporting the important details of Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead recovery and other fish and wildlife issues, and maintain the historical record through the Columbia Basin Bulletin Archives, which currently host over 12,000 articles covering every imaginable topic related to the Columbia River Basin.
The Columbia Basin Bulletin is a project of Earthwise Knowledge Initiative, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Managing Editor
Bill Crampton
Bill Crampton, owner of Intermountain Communications, founded the Columbia Basin Bulletin in 1997, and continues to serve as managing editor.
Crampton has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in history from Washington State University. He worked for 20 years as a newspaper reporter and editor in Alaska and the Northwest. Crampton launched Intermountain Communications in 1997 as a professional writing and information services company specializing in natural resource issues.
Reporters
Mike O’Bryant, Senior Reporter
Mike O’Bryant has been senior reporter for the Columbia Basin Bulletin for over a decade, and has written and reported on energy, the environment and fish and wildlife issues for over 30 years. O’Bryant has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in American literature from Portland State University.
