The Idaho Department of Fish and Game this week completed its purchase of a former southeast Idaho trout hatchery site with the goal of constructing a new hatchery to help boost numbers of endangered Snake River sockeye salmon.
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council on Wednesday recommended funding for three projects that aim to fill needs of either the May 2008 Federal Columbia River Power system biological opinion or a Columbia Basin Fish Accord.
The Bonneville Power Administration is inviting public comments on its draft environmental impact statement for a proposed new high-voltage transmission line.
Researchers last week began to test whether endangered Snake River sockeye salmon spawners can be trapped at southeast Washington's Lower Granite Dam and safely transported via tanker truck to holding facilities at Eagle Hatchery near Boise.
The Northwest Resource Information Center filed a lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week that contends the region's Sixth Power Plan includes inflated estimates of the cost of flow augmentation and spill for fish passage on the Snake and Columbia rivers and fails to adequately quantify the benefits of salmon recovery.
With an unknown number of chum salmon known to be headed up the Columbia River, the Technical Management Team on Tuesday set Nov. 1 as the date for the start of flows past Bonneville Dam at levels designed to facilitate spawning and protect egg nests until young fish hatch out next spring to start a new generation.
The U.S. District Court in Spokane has approved and entered a judicial consent decree that imposes a new, enforceable schedule for cleaning up waste from Hanford’s underground tanks.
Federal agencies on Wednesday released details of planned work for 2010-2013 to protect Columbia/Snake River salmon and steelhead. The document describes a extensive program of habitat restoration, hatchery reforms and hydrosystem operations and improvements.
The Bonneville Power Administration's Greg Delwiche next week will complete a full circle of sorts when he takes over as the federal power marketing agency's senior vice president for Power Services.
The Bonneville Power Administration has announced that Lorri Bodi will become acting vice president for Environment, Fish and Wildlife, effective Monday, June 21, when Greg Delwiche moves into his new job as senior vice president for Power Services.
The Environment Protection Agency is seeking comments from pesticide users, registrants, and other interested parties on draft "reasonable and prudent measures and alternatives" included in a draft biological opinion received from the National Marine Fisheries Service on June 16.
Time will tell if a "pulse" of water now beginning to surge down the down the Kootenai River in northwestern Montana-northern Idaho is a viable tool for improving productivity of wild white sturgeon populations that have been judged to be on the brink of extinction.
U.S. District Court Judge James A. Redden in an order issued Tuesday outlines how and when the legal merit of the newly released "supplemental biological opinion" for the Federal Columbia River Power System will be debated.
Public comments decrying planned road decommissioning in central Idaho's Big Creek drainage has shifted project proponents, the Nez Perce Tribe and the Bonneville Power Administration, to a go-slow approach.
Fishing, business and conservation groups filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Washington Department of Ecology, saying the agency has failed to aid imperiled salmon and steelhead stocks by limiting spill at federal Columbia/Snake River dams.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said this week that Steve Wright will stay on in his current role as administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration. Wright became acting administrator in 2000 and was appointed to the position in 2002.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on June 1 disapproved Oregon's New and Revised Human Health Water Quality Criteria for Toxics, clearing the way for Oregon to continue the rulemaking process whereby the "Fish Consumption Rate" will be increased to the highest levels in the United States.
As requested by the Oregon Legislature, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has delivered a report detailing how the state can deal with mounting concerns over persistent pollutants that find their way from household, industrial and other uses into Oregon waters.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a new permit requirement that would decrease the amount of pesticides discharged to our nation's waters and protect human health and the environment.
CBB Shorts: Oregon Coast Coho; Willamette Reservoirs; Washington Climatologist; Earthquake Odds; NSIA Science, Policy Board
Federal agencies Thursday issued a 2010 "Supplemental Biological Opinion" intended to protect Columbia/Snake River Basin salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that it will require pesticide use limitations to protect 28 species of Pacific salmon and steelhead in California and the Northwest listed under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has until June 1 to approve or disapprove water quality criteria for toxic pollutants adopted by Oregon in 2004, according to a court order stemming from a federal lawsuit filed in April 2006 by Northwest Environmental Advocates.
U.S. senators from the Northwest and California introduced legislation this week to permanently prohibit offshore drilling on the outer continental shelf of California, Oregon and Washington.
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council on Wednesday sent ahead nine "fast track" fish projects that are expected to have budgets of up to nearly $36 million for the period fiscal years 2010-2013.
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