Study Examines Ways To Dredge Columbia River Mouth For Navigation While Maintaining Healthy Nearshore Habitats, Limit Sediment Lost At Sea

Canada, U.S. Meet For 16th Round Of Columbia River Treaty Negotiations; Biden, Trudeau Issue Statement 

Comments On Corps’ Draft EIS for 13 Willamette Valley Dams Question Whether Plan Avoids Jeopardy For ESA-Listed Salmonids

Why Are Southern Resident Killer Whales Not Recovering? Ground-Breaking Study Shows Inbreeding Major Contributor To Decline Of Endangered Orcas

Northwest Washington Study: With Less Salmon To Eat, Bald Eagles Showing Up On Dairy Farms To Get Food From Farm By-Products

With End Of La Nina, Ocean Conditions Likely Trending Downward For Salmon, Steelhead Survival, Mass Of Warm Water In North Pacific

UW/NOAA Study Looks At Why Northern Resident Orcas Doing Better Than Southern Residents; They Hunt Differently

California Current Ecosystem Status Report Shows Disconnect Between Oceanographic Predictions, Observed Conditions

All This Wet Weather Yet Columbia River Basin Water Supply Forecast For Salmon Migrating Season Still Below Normal

California Salmon: Shrinking Age Distribution Of Returning Spawners Increases Impacts Of A Bad Year, Warming Climate; Older Fish Rarely Observed

USFWS Releases Draft Recovery For Oregon Spotted Frog, Most Aquatic Frog In PNW; Over 76 Percent Of Range Gone

Oregon State Scientists Analyze 41 Climate Change ‘Amplifying Feedback Loops’; Threats Looming From Tipping Points

WSU Study Estimates, Surprisingly, About 50 Canada Lynx in Glacier National Park; Could Provide Climate Haven

New Data On Salmon Behavior In Ocean, Availability of Chinook For Endangered Orcas, Resets Threshold For Fishing Limits

NOAA Fisheries To Conduct Status Review Of Olympic Peninsula Wild Steelhead To Determine If ESA Listing Warranted

UM Study On Montanans’ Views About Grizzly Bears: Most Think The Bruins Have Right To Exist, But Also Support Allowing Hunting

WDFW Report Calls For New Strategies To Deal With Climate Change Impacts On Streamflow, Salmon: ‘Need To Address If Want To Recover Salmon’

Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale Mothers Pay High Price For Raising Sons: Sacrifice Reproduction (And Species Recovery) To Care For Male Offspring

Concerning Drop In White Sturgeon Abundance Prompts Fisheries Managers To Recommend No Retention Fishing Below Bonneville Dam

Draft Report Out For Comment On Improving Flows, Water Temps In Yakima River Delta To Aid Salmon, Steelhead

EPA Issues Ruling Blocking Pebble Mine In Bristol Bay, Discharges Would Have ‘Adverse Effects On Salmon Fisheries’

Top Predator Feeding On Top Predator: After Eliminating Deer On Alaska Island, Wolves Now Stalking, Eating Sea Otters

USGS Says Drought, Pesticides Have Reduced Western Bumble Bee By 57 percent, Could Rise To 97 Percent In Some Regions

With Spring Heatwaves, Rapid Melt, April 1 May No Longer Be Reliable Benchmark For Evaluating Snowpack Levels, Western Water Supplies

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