Court Halts Million-Acre Oil Lease Sale In Alaska’s Cook Inlet Due To Possible Impacts To Beluga Whales, Orders Further Environmental Review

Council Gets Rundown On Over 130 Habitat Projects Aiming At Improving Lot Of Struggling Willamette River Spring Chinook, Winter Steelhead

Fish Biologists Look At Reconnecting Migratory Bull Trout Below Hells Canyon With Resident Populations Upstream

WDOE Taking Comment On Proposed, First-Of-Its-Kind Pilot Project In Port Angeles To Pull Carbon Pollution Out Of The Air

Status Review: Northern California Steelhead, ESA-Listed 24 Years Ago, Still In Trouble, Climate Change Main Threat

Though Sockeye Return To Columbia River Is Booming, Angler Retention Shut Down To Protect Struggling, ESA-Listed Snake River Sockeye

Study Finds Pacific Cod In Gulf Of Alaska Can’t Rely On Coastal Safe Havens For Protection During Marine Heat Waves, May Have To Move North

With Air, Water Temps In Lower Snake Heating Up, Corps Releasing Cool Dworshak Flows To Aid Salmon, Steelhead

Pacific Coast Gray Whales 13 Percent Shorter Than 20 Years Ago; Raises Concerns About Warming Waters, Lack Of Prey, State Of Marine Food Web

Mountain Watersheds To Ocean Depths: Flathead Lake Biological Station Gets $9.5 Million To Study Ocean Climate Change

Climate Change Creating New ‘Open Gate’ Corridors For Pacific Salmon; Higher Abundance Seen In Canadian Arctic

Marbled Murrelet Study Shows How Artificial Intelligence Can Enhance Monitoring Secretive Species

Dropping Water Supply Forecast Signals Drought Conditions Over Much Of Columbia Basin; Grand Coulee Sixth Lowest On Record

Plan Approved For Pulses Out Of Libby Dam To Encourage ESA-Listed Kootenai River Sturgeon To Move Upstream, Spawn

Elwha River Tribal Ceremonial Fishery To Open This Fall, Other Fishing Closed Until More Spawners Above Former Dam Sites

DDT Pollutants Found In Deep Sea Fish, Sediments Off CA Coast; Banned Pesticide Threat To Marine Life, Human Health?

Funding Package For Removing Dams, Culverts Includes $5 Million For Removing NE Washington’s Enloe Dam, Could Open 1,500 Miles Of Salmon Habitat

Fish-Blocking Dam On Willamette River Tributary Built In 1858 Being Removed; New Habitat For Salmon, Steelhead

Montana Seeking Comment On Proposed Conservation Easement For 33,000 Acres Of Fish/Wildlife Habitat In Salish, Cabinet Mountains

Holistic Negotiations: Washington, Federal Agencies Announce Agreement On ‘Realistic Course’ for Radioactive Waste Cleanup At Hanford

Status Report: Though Some SW Washington Steelhead, Salmon Populations Under ESA Show Improved Numbers Since Listing, None Anywhere Near Recovery

Imperiled Steelhead Migrating Up Columbia/Snake River Show Lowest Survival Bonneville Dam To McNary Dam, Miss Survival Targets

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