Hunting greater numbers of male deer can slow the spread of chronic wasting disease, a lethal wildlife disease, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

Floodplain restoration projects designed to improve instream habitat conditions for anadromous fish resulted in an increase in the numbers of juvenile salmon and steelhead, according to a recent study that examined segments of 17 habitat restoration projects in the Columbia River basin.

NOAA Fisheries has completed 5-year status reviews of the recovery progress and prospects of four salmon and steelhead species in Northern California and Southern Oregon and found that all four should remain threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded to a contractor $657 million for the the “Howard A. Hanson Dam Additional Water Storage Fish Passage Facility Project,” intended to increase the ability of Endangered Species Act - listed Chinook salmon to access substantially more spawning and rearing area – 221 square miles of undeveloped watershed. The earthen dam is on the Green River, 35 miles southeast of Seattle.