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

Tribe Files Lawsuit Challenging Forest Service’s Approval Of Massive Gold Mine In Salmon River Basin: ‘Scale Of Disturbance Will Be Staggering’

Scientists Say Wider Scope Needed When Studying, Restoring Columbia River Estuary, New Performance Measures Needed To Guide Salmon Recovery

Coho Urban Runoff Mortality Syndrome: WSU Research Team Discovers How Tire Chemical 6PPD Kills Coho, Step To Finding Alternative

Groups File Lawsuit Contending Steelhead Net Pen Aquaculture In Upper Columbia Polluting River, Violating Clean Water Permits

How Much Habitat Restoration Needed To Produce ‘Biological Meaningful Results’? Scientists Review 40 Years Of Projects Under Council Program

‘Sleeping Giant Awakening’: Ocean Warming Causing Higher Concentrations Of Algal Toxins In Arctic Food Webs

Oregon State Researchers Show How 1995 Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction Prompting Aspen Tree Recovery; Increased Bison New Constraint

NOAA In Court Agreement To Determine ESA-Listing Of Coastal Spring Chinook Salmon By Late 2025, Early 2026

River Managers Adopt Operations Aimed At Cooling Lower Snake River Water During Return Of Endangered Adult Sockeye

Anchovy Boom In Ocean Leading To Thiamine Deficiencies In Pacific Salmon, Fish Swimming Upside Down

With NOAA Funding, Cowlitz Indian Tribe Removes Dam In Washougal River Basin, Restoring Fish Passage, Habitat

Study Looks At How Strategic Transactions Of Water Rights During Shortages Can Both Conserve Water, Restore Fish Habitat

NOAA Launches New Ocean Modeling System For West Coast, Alaska, Predicts Future Ocean Changes

NOAA: Gray Whale Population Migrating Along West Coast Continues To Decline, Lowest Since 1970s

Trump Rescinds Biden’s Executive Order Aimed At Restoring Columbia Basin Salmon, Steelhead Runs

New WDFW Study Shows Links Between Changing Ocean Conditions, Declining Survival Of Coastal Winter Steelhead

Lawsuit Seeks Quicker Action On NOAA Pending Determination Whether Alaska Chinook Salmon Warrant ESA-Listing

Columbia Basin Snowmelt, Runoff In Most Areas Early, Rapid; Water Supply Forecasts May-September Dropping

Spring Runoff Older Than You Think: Hydrologists Show Mountain Streamflow Old Snowmelt On Years-Long Underground Journey

New Research Shows Juvenile Salmon Swim Downriver To Ocean, Then Back Up Other Rivers; ‘Salmon Still Surprise Us’

Administration’s Proposed Rule Would Alter Definition Of ‘Take’ For ESA Species, Critics Fear Less Habitat Protections

Mixed Ocean Conditions When Columbia River Salmonid Juveniles Hit Salt Water In 2023, Average Numbers Returning This Year

Spring Spill To Aid Salmon, Steelhead Passage Now Going Full Blast At Eight Columbia/Snake River Dams

Some Melting In March But Columbia Basin Water Supply Forecast Improves, 90 Percent Of Average At Dalles Dam (April-Sept)

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