Study Shows After 2020 Megafires In Oregon Cascades, Fish, Amphibians Doing Well
January 9th, 2026
In the aftermath of historically severe wildfires in 2020, a study of Cascade Range watersheds found that stream vertebrates are doing surprising well, highlighted by flourishing fish populations.
Klamath Indigenous Land Trust Purchases 10,000 Acres Along Klamath River For Ecological Restoration Post Dam Removal
January 9th, 2026
As salmon return to the headwaters of the Klamath River for the first time in over a century, the newly formed Klamath Indigenous Land Trust (KILT) and PacifiCorp announced the landmark purchase of 10,000 acres in and around the former reservoir reach of the river.
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Lawsuit Filed To Stop BPA From Joining Southeast Power Market, Says Violates NW Power Act, Salmon Recovery
July 18th, 2025
Northwest nonprofits have challenged in federal court the Bonneville Power Administration’s decision to join a Southeast power market and sell Northwest hydropower to customers as far away as Louisiana, saying the change would result in higher energy bills, higher transmission costs, reduced access to renewable energy and threaten the agency’s commitment to salmon and steelhead recovery.
Army Corps, Bureau Of Reclamation Withdraw Efforts To Complete Supplemental EIS On Hydro Impacts To Salmon, Steelhead
July 18th, 2025
Federal agencies this week backed away from their efforts to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement for Columbia River basin dam operations and their impact on salmon and steelhead, citing a June 12 Presidential Memorandum as their justification.
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Anchovy Boom In Ocean Leading To Thiamine Deficiencies In Pacific Salmon, Fish Swimming Upside Down
July 18th, 2025
A vitamin deficiency likely killed as many as half of newly hatched fry of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River in 2020 and 2021. These new findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Trump Rescinds Biden’s Executive Order Aimed At Restoring Columbia Basin Salmon, Steelhead Runs
June 13th, 2025
The Trump administration issued a memorandum this week that disrupts Columbia River basin salmon and steelhead recovery by rescinding a 2023 agreement that included the federal government, two states and four Columbia River tribes and funded that effort with nearly $1 billion.
Lawsuit Filed In Effort To Stop Musk’s DOGE From Taking Further Actions Against Multiple Environmental Agencies
March 15th, 2025
Center for Biological Diversity, Federal Aviation Administration, Litigation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Public Articles, US Bureau of Land Management, US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Commerce, US Department of Transportation, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, US National Park Service
The Center for Biological Diversity has sued five cabinet-level agencies seeking to stop the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its DOGE teams from taking further actions against multiple environmental agencies until each team fully complies with the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
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Fisheries Society Gives Lifetime Achievement Award To Northwest Fisheries Science Center Scientist Weitkamp
March 15th, 2025
From the Columbia River Estuary to the farthest reaches of the stormy Gulf of Alaska in the middle of winter, Dr. Laurie Weitkamp has gone far and wide to study and better understand the salmon and steelhead that are the lifeblood of Northwest rivers and cultures. Last month the Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society presented Weitkamp with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Conservation Groups File Lawsuit Calling For NOAA Fisheries To Speed Up ESA Listing Of Olympic Peninsula Summer, Winter Steelhead
February 7th, 2025
Western Washington’s Olympic Peninsula summer and winter steelhead were found by NOAA Fisheries in November 2024 to be at moderate risk of extinction, but the federal agency has yet to list the fish as threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act, according to a new complaint filed Jan. 17 in federal court by The Conservation Angler and the Wild Fish Conservancy.
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Washington Governor Joins Oregon Governor In Affirming State Commitments To Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative Aimed At Restoring Salmon Runs
December 9th, 2024
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has directed Washington state agencies to take all actions necessary, in cooperation with the state of Oregon and four lower Columbia Basin treaty tribes, to fulfill the State of Washington’s commitments to the Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative.
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Group Seeks ESA Protections For Two Snails In Southeast Oregon’s Owyhee River
December 9th, 2024
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed petitions with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking Endangered Species Act protections for the Owyhee hot springsnail and Owyhee upland pyrg.
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Conservation Groups Settle Lawsuit With WDFW Over Lower Columbia River Hatcheries, Litigation Continues With NOAA, ODFW
September 28th, 2024
A lawsuit contending that lower Columbia River hatcheries downstream of Bonneville Dam are a threat to wild salmon and steelhead listed under the federal Endangered Species Act was settled in part last week.