A $9.4 million genetic sampling project designed to better chart Columbia River basin salmon genetic diversity, stock composition, and stock specific run timing won the favor of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council Thursday.
A new federal salmon plan that agencies say will boost beleaguered wild populations instead "seeks to shrink the magnitude of the problem salmon face" and continues a "pattern of matching an analysis to an outcome, rather than allowing the analysis to inform the outcome…," according to a legal brief filed Tuesday by Earthjustice.
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes on Nov. 7 signed an agreement with federal agencies that makes available approximately $61 million over 10 years to help rebuild populations of Snake River spring/summer chinook and Snake River steelhead in Idaho's Salmon River basin and Snake River sockeye and native Yellowstone cutthroat in the upper Snake River.
Calling a new Columbia River basin salmon protection plan a worsening of the status quo "reflects a stubborn and dogmatic refusal to look honestly at the effect of past mitigation, current data, and recent fish counts," according documents filed by federal attorneys late last week in U.S. District Court.
A higher-than-anticipated 2008 run of upriver fall chinook salmon has allowed tribal commercial fishers to stretch their Columbia River mainstem harvest through this week.
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes announced today that they intend to join four Columbia River tribes, two states and three federal agencies in signing an unprecedented agreement designed to improve habitat and strengthen fish stocks in the Columbia River Basin over the next 10 years.
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council last week gave the go-ahead for the Yakama Nation to launch into final design for new Klickitat River subbasin hatchery facilities that have an estimated cost of $36.9 million.
Olney “JP” Patt, Jr. Monday announced his resignation as the executive director of the Portland, Oregon based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission effective August 1st, 2008, citing personal and family considerations.
N. Kathryn "Kat" Brigham, one of the founders of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, has been chosen by fellow commissioners to lead the organization for July 2008 through June 2009.
After years of technical exchanges, the Yakama Nation appears ready to take a big first step toward its goals of boosting supplementation of endangered spring chinook salmon and steelhead and increasing fall chinook and coho returns to the Klickitat River basin for harvest.
It's a new season and fresh salmon caught by tribal fishermen in the Columbia River and tributaries is again available for purchase.
An upriver spring chinook salmon spawning run that has proceeded in fits and starts up the Columbia and Snake rivers is almost certainly late and smaller in number than had been predicted in preseason, according to fishery officials.
An upriver spring chinook salmon spawning run that has proceeded in fits and starts up the Columbia and Snake rivers is almost certainly late and smaller in number than had been predicted in preseason, according to fishery officials.
Scientists from tribal governments and Oregon State University have developed new guidelines for evaluating health risks stemming from contamination of native lands.
Scientists from tribal governments and Oregon State University have developed new guidelines for evaluating health risks stemming from contamination of native lands.
The Independent Scientific Review Panel last week completed on two projects proposed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation that are earmarked for funding in a recently announced draft memorandum of understanding between the tribe and federal agencies.
The Bonneville Power Administration this week announced draft agreements with four Columbia River basin tribes, and the states of Idaho and Montana, that would guarantee $980.5 million in funding for fish and wildlife projects over the next 10 years in exchange for support of the federal hydro system salmon recovery strategy.
A total of nearly $1 billion in fish and wildlife project funding promises either moves toward a more unified and successful Columbia River basin salmon restoration effort, or, depending on the perspective, attempts to dodge biological and legal truths.
The Bonneville Power Administration this week announced draft agreements with four Columbia River basin tribes, and the states of Idaho and Montana, that would guarantee $980.5 million in funding for fish and wildlife projects over the next 10 years in exchange for support of the federal hydro system salmon recovery strategy.
A total of nearly $1 billion in fish and wildlife project funding promises either moves toward a more unified and successful Columbia River basin salmon restoration effort, or, depending on the perspective, attempts to dodge biological and legal truths.
The Spokane Tribe of Indians has joined a partnership that intends to provide new water for irrigators and cities in the Columbia River Basin and support stream flows for endangered fish.
The Spokane Tribe of Indians has joined a partnership that intends to provide new water for irrigators and cities in the Columbia River Basin and support stream flows for endangered fish.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is soliciting public comment on a plan to curb erosion at a waterfowl production area on the north shore of Montana's Flathead Lake.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is soliciting public comment on a plan to curb erosion at a waterfowl production area on the north shore of Montana's Flathead Lake.
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announced two agreements this week with Eastern Washington tribes to deliver water from Lake Roosevelt to the Columbia Basin for farmers, cities and endangered salmon.
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