The Army Corps of Engineers released an environmental assessment for
public review Wednesday that outlines a plan to relocate the largest Caspian
tern colony in North America in an attempt to reduce predation on juvenile
salmon in the Columbia River estuary. If approved, the Corps will attempt
to move the tern colony, which is estimated at 10,000 breeding pairs, from
an 8-acre site on the west end of Rice Island, a manmade dredge spoil disposal
island at river mile 21, to East Sand ...

Former Northwest Power Planning Council chairman Angus Duncan has been
named executive director of the fledgling Bonneville Environmental Foundation.

The Foundation was created last summer under a cooperative venture involving
conservation organizations -- Renewable Northwest Project, Natural Resources
Defense Council, and Northwest Energy Coalition -- and the Bonneville Power
Administration.

The three environmental groups endorse select, environmentally preferred
resources. ...

Montana fisheries biologists say a BPA-funded culvert replacement project
at Hungry Horse Reservoir has been a hit with spawning trout.

Before-and-after surveys show an obvious increase in spawners using
previously inaccessible streams that flow into the reservoir, said Ladd
Knotek, a fisheries biologist with the state Department of Fish, Wildlife
and Parks.

Before, several of the streams presented nearly insurmountable obstacles
for fish aiming to swim upstream. One, called Felix ...