Columbia Basin Bulletin https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Budget Cuts Lead To Shut Down Of Washington’s Skamania Fish Hatchery, Fewer Steelhead For Columbia River Basin With NOAA Funding, Cowlitz Indian Tribe Removes Dam In Washougal River Basin, Restoring Fish Passage, Habitat Trump Administration Budget Proposes Eliminating Marine Mammal Commission, Staff On Oct. 1 Federal Agencies Extend Comment Period On Columbia/Snake Hydro System Supplemental EIS For First Time, California Releases Millions Of Juvenile Fall Chinook Into Mainstem Sacramento River, Timed With Water Flow Increases EVs, Chip Factories, Data Centers, Growth Leading To Doubling Of Electricity Needs In Northwest By 2046 Columbia River Harvest Managers Confirm Spring Chinook Return On Track, Approve 14 More Fishing Days OSU Study Details How Many Additional Deaths Attributed To Warming Climate, Wildfire Pollution Administration’s Proposed Budget Would Eliminate ‘The Bee Lab’ That Funds, Conducts Native Bee Research Spring Runoff Older Than You Think: Hydrologists Show Mountain Streamflow Old Snowmelt On Years-Long Underground Journey Study: Glaciers Will Take Centuries To Recover Even If Global Warming Reversed Columbia Basin Snowmelt, Runoff In Most Areas Early, Rapid; Water Supply Forecasts May-September Dropping BPA Financial Outlook Improves Second Quarter With Higher Than Expected Revenues OSU Analysis Suggests Thousands Of Animal Species Threatened By Climate Change, Invertebrates Increasingly Invulnerable USDA Terminates Largest Grant In University of Idaho’s History, $59 Million For “Climate-Smart’ Commodities Program Washington State’s Green Crab Invasion: WSU Study Finds Juvenile Green Crabs Do As Much Damage As Adults Alaska Expects This Year’s Commercial Salmon Harvest To Be Nearly Double Last Year’s Harvest, Big Boosts To Pinks, Coho Murray Says Trump Administration’s Spending Plans For Corps Moving Project Funding From Blue States To Red States Corps Seeks Public Comments On Supplemental EIS For Willamette River Basin Dams, Wants Views On Ending Hydropower IDFG Offering Cash Incentives To Harvest Rainbows, Hybrids From South Fork Snake River, Helps Native Cutthroat Harvest Managers Upgrade Spring Chinook Return To Columbia River, Extend Fishing Season; Steelhead Numbers Dismal Large-Scale Habitat Restoration Project Launched On Lower East Fork Lewis River To Aid Threatened Salmon, Steelhead Lawsuit Seeks Quicker Action On NOAA Pending Determination Whether Alaska Chinook Salmon Warrant ESA-Listing Alaska Study Details How Rising Temperatures Lead To Hungrier Invasive Northern Pike In Salmon Streams Scavenger Study: Researchers Find Ravens In Yellowstone Don’t Follow Wolves But Instead Remember Common Kill Sites Tire Pollution Under Scrutiny: New Canadian Study Shows How Artificial Turf Using Crumb Rubber Can Kill Salmon For Years Corps Opens Public Comment On Proposed Renewable Diesel Refinery In Columbia River Estuary; Could Produce 1.4 Billion Gallons Per Year Columbia Riverkeeper Issues Report On Power/Water Use For Developing Data Centers Along Columbia River, Calls For Moratorium Habitat Compression: West Coast Cool Corridor For Marine Life Attracts Both Humpback Whales, Fisheries To Same Productive Waters Lake Pend Oreille Angler Science Program Produces Data Helping IDFG Track Health Of Trophy Rainbow Trout Fishery Corps Taking Interim Measures At Willamette Valley Dam Due To Risks Associated With Major Earthquake From Cascadia Subduction Zone Lawsuit Launched Against USFWS Over ESA Protection For Western Ridged Mussel, Lives In Columbia/Snake River Basin Streams Northwest Power/Conservation Council To Craft, Push For Legislation To Improve Columbia River Sea Lion Salmon Predation Management Oregon Finds First Boat In 2026 With Invasive Quagga Mussels, Transported From Lake Havasu Q&A: NOAA Researcher Discusses Why Future Of Imperiled, Isolated Southern Resident Killer Whales May Depend On Interactions With Other Populations Federal Agencies Seek Appeal At Ninth Circuit Of Preliminary Injunction Directing Columbia/Snake River Operations For ESA-Listed Salmon White-Nose Syndrome Found In Bats For First Time In Oregon, Idaho; Have Critical Ecological, Economic Role In Controlling Insect Populations 2025 Sea Lion Predation At Bonneville Dam: 3.6 Percent Of Spring Chinook, 5.5 Percent Of Steelhead, Sturgeon Consumption ‘Demands Attention’ Melt Seasons And Net Loss Of Ice: Study Shows How Alaska’s Glaciers Melt Additional Three Weeks With Every 1.8 Degree F Increase Warming Climate In PNW Making Avalanche Forecasting Difficult, Cooler Inland Areas Seeing More Rain-On-Snow Crust Layers With Still Developing El Nino, Contrasting Pattern In North Pacific, NOAA Says Signals Mixed For NW Juvenile Salmon Growth, Survival This Year UBC Research: Summers Expanding 50 Percent Faster Than Thought, Quicker Transitions Between Seasons Over 100 Habitat Restoration Projects For Salmon Yielding Big Results On Central California Coast, Record 30,000 Endangered Coho Return USGS Releases New AI Tool Forecasting Droughts, Helps Communities Prepare For Water Shortages Scientists Link New California Population Of Invasive, Destructive South American Rodent (Nutria) To A Re-Introduction From Central Oregon New UW Study Finds Parasitic Tapeworm In One-Third Of Coyotes Surveyed In Washington, Can Be Passed To Domestic Dogs, Humans Judicial Overreach Must Stop’: Agencies Ask Appeals Court To Throw Out Injunction Guiding Spill For Salmon At Columbia/Snake Dams Though Good In North Part Of Columbia Basin, Snowpack Has Disappeared In Some Areas To The South; Summer Streamflows In Jeopardy Wildfires, Winter Rainstorms In PNW Accelerating Winter Snowmelt, Less Mountain Snow Available As Water Storage During Summer Group Launches Lawsuit Against BLM/USFWS To Protect ESA-Listed Seabirds From Oregon Logging Project