More Letters, Meetings About What To Do With Salmon-Eating Cormorants On Astoria Bridge; Chase Them Back To East Sand Island? Culling?

Columbia Basin Snowpack, Water Supply Take A Hit With May’s Warm, Dry Weather; Not Much Relief Expected For June

Once Again, Federal ‘Listening Session’ On Columbia Basin Salmon Recovery Focuses On Breaching Lower Snake Dams

Yakama Nation Reintroduction Programs Bringing Once Extinct Coho Salmon Back To Upper Columbia River Tributaries

Washington DOE Issues Clean Water Certification For Pumped Storage Project At John Day Dam; Many More Approvals Needed

Council/BPA Moving Closer To Approving Huge Increase For Hatchery Maintenance Due To Flush Revenue Year For BPA

Court Order Has Corps Drawing Down Two Willamette Reservoirs To Historically Low Levels To Increase Juvenile Salmon Passage

Basin Water Supply Forecasts Rising, 93 Percent Of Normal At Dalles Dam; Low Canada Snowpack Impacting Flows

Sea Lions Chasing Good Smelt Run Flood Columbia River In High Numbers; Staying For Spring Chinook Feasting

WA Legislature Oks Transportation Bill That Includes Millions For Analyzing Lower Snake River Dam Breaching Impacts On Transport, Energy, Irrigation

As Expiration Date Nears, U.S., Canada Pushing To Finish Columbia River Treaty Negotiations By June; Uncertainty Over Future Operations A Motivator

Tribes, Corps Studying Impacts Of Sediment Buildup (Deltas) At Mouths Of Columbia River Tribs; Impacts Temps, Predation, Salmon Survival

Cooler Weather Keeping Snowpack Higher Up But Basin Water Supply Expected To Be Below Average This Summer

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

Early Estimate Indicates Upper Snake River Water To Aid Migrating Juvenile Salmon Will Likely Be Short Of NOAA BiOp Flow Requirements

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

Science Panel Gives Thumbs-Up On Fish Response Models Corps Used To Develop Draft Willamette River Basin EIS

Low Water, Low Flows Force Columbia River Hydro Managers To Drop Bonneville Dam Tailwater Levels Aimed At Protecting ESA-Listed Chum Salmon

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

Draft Report Documents 2022 Sea Lion Fish Predation Numbers At Bonneville Dam; Notes Huge Take Of Struggling White Sturgeon

Council Reaches Out To State Agencies To Discuss ‘Alarming Conclusions’ Of Study Detailing Impacts To Salmon From Cormorants On Astoria Bridge

Northwest Power/Conservation Council Elects Officers, Two Long-Time Members Retiring

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