Columbia Basin Bulletin https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html WSU Study Shows How AI Dramatically Speeds Up Tracking Wildlife With Remote Cameras, Data Analysis Time Drops From Months To Days Multiple Restoration Projects In Snake River Basin Connect Salmon, Steelhead To Needed Cold-Water Habitat Invasive, Destructive Golden Mussels Found On Boat Entering Oregon, Prompting Washington To Undertake Emergency Rule home Pacific Fishing Effort Mapping Project: A Geographic Grid Covering Waters Off West Coast Consolidates Location, Decades Of Catch Data, Fisheries Revenue  California Current Report: Upwelling Held Warm Waters Offshore In 2025, Juvenile Salmon Flourished In Productive Conditions NOAA Fisheries Announces Up To $99 Million For Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund Projects Oregon Lawmakers Seek Reversal Of Administration Actions On Programs Serving Tribal Communities, Cite Trust, Treaty Obligations WDFW Research Shows Fatal White-Nose Syndrome In Bats Continues To Spread, 11 New Counties In 2024 Much More Snow Needed: A Warm Winter Has Led To Many Columbia Basin Watersheds Showing Startling Low Snowpacks Conservation Groups Settle Lawsuit With WDFW Over Lower Columbia River Hatcheries, Litigation Continues With NOAA, ODFW WDFW Opens Hatchery Steelhead Fishing In Areas Of Upper Columbia For First Time In 9 Years, 2024 Returns Exceed Wild Fish Escapement Goals States Set 2025 Columbia River Sturgeon Retention Seasons; Expect High Effort, Short Seasons Study Finds 56 Percent Of Caspian Tern Colony On Washington State Island Killed By Avian Flu, Some Had Relocated From Columbia River Estuary Alaska Salmon Harvest In 2026 Expected To Be Lower Than Last Year, Far Less Pink Return Of Columbia River Smelt ( ESA-Listed 15 Years Ago)This Year Expected To Be Close To 10-Year Average; Limited, Tentative Fishery Announced Washington Intercepts Tugboat At Watercraft Inspection Station Carrying 21 Gallons Of Invasive Mussels, Largest Volume From One Boat In 7 Years Egg-To-Fry Survival Of Chinook Salmon Studied In Several Columbia Basin Rivers, Provides Predictive Models For Researchers For First Time WDFW Using ‘Management Strategy Evaluation’ To Assess Harvest Strategies For Lower Columbia River Tributary Fisheries 2025 Columbia/Snake River Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Opens, Last Year’s Top Angler Earned $164,260 Ninth Circuit Sets Schedule For Briefings In Federal Appeal Of Lower Court’s Ruling On Hydro Operations For Salmon, Steelhead New WDFW Study Shows Links Between Changing Ocean Conditions, Declining Survival Of Coastal Winter Steelhead Will Marbled Murrelet Go Extinct In Washington? WDFW Seeks Comment On Draft Status Review European Green Crab 2025 Field Season Update: WDFW, Tribes, Co-Managers Set 30,000 Traps This Year, Remove 300,000 Crabs Massive Run Of Pink Salmon Filling Washington Rivers, Can Have Negative Impact On Other Fish, Killer Whales Work Begins To Improve Passage Conditions For Migrating Salmon, Steelhead In Yakima River Delta Marine Conditions Not Working For ESA-Listed Columbia River Smelt, Yet Another Year Of Low Return USGS Releases New AI Tool Forecasting Droughts, Helps Communities Prepare For Water Shortages Northwest Power/Conservation Council To Craft, Push For Legislation To Improve Columbia River Sea Lion Salmon Predation Management Corps Completes Scoping of Proposed Underwater Transmission Line In Columbia River, Draft EIS Next NW Lawmakers Introduce Legislation To Create Task Force To Address Impacts Of Toxic Tire Chemical (6PPD-Quinone) Killing Salmon New PNW Wildfire Risk Assessment Tool Considers Social Vulnerability A Factor, Could Assist Fair Distribution Of Risk Reduction Resources Annual Columbia River Pikeminnow Reward Fishery Opens May 1, Top Angler Last Year Pocketed $159,310 Wolf Reports: Both Oregon, Washington Count Increases In Wolves, Packs, Breeding Pairs In 2025 Climate Warming Driving Starving Gray Whales Into San Francisco Bay Where They Are Hit, Killed By Vessels Federal Agencies Seek Appeal At Ninth Circuit Of Preliminary Injunction Directing Columbia/Snake River Operations For ESA-Listed Salmon Group Launches Lawsuit Against BLM/USFWS To Protect ESA-Listed Seabirds From Oregon Logging Project New UW Study Finds Parasitic Tapeworm In One-Third Of Coyotes Surveyed In Washington, Can Be Passed To Domestic Dogs, Humans Scientists Link New California Population Of Invasive, Destructive South American Rodent (Nutria) To A Re-Introduction From Central Oregon Over 100 Habitat Restoration Projects For Salmon Yielding Big Results On Central California Coast, Record 30,000 Endangered Coho Return UBC Research: Summers Expanding 50 Percent Faster Than Thought, Quicker Transitions Between Seasons Wildfires, Winter Rainstorms In PNW Accelerating Winter Snowmelt, Less Mountain Snow Available As Water Storage During Summer Though Good In North Part Of Columbia Basin, Snowpack Has Disappeared In Some Areas To The South; Summer Streamflows In Jeopardy ‘Judicial Overreach Must Stop’: Agencies Ask Appeals Court To Throw Out Injunction Guiding Spill For Salmon At Columbia/Snake Dams WDFW Completes Western Butterfly Conservation Plan Aimed At Boosting Startling Low Population Numbers USFWS Approves Oregon’s Wildlife Action Plan, Stronger Focus On Climate Change, Invasive Species; Eligible For Federal Funding Genetic Exchange: Female Grizzly Captured In Montana, Translocated To Wyoming Emerges From Den With Two Cubs PFMC Finalizes 2026 Recreational, Commercial Ocean Salmon Fishing Seasons For California, Oregon, Washington Washington Ecology Seeks Public Comment On Cleanup Of Old Smelter Site Now Slated For Pumped Storage Project Near John Day Dam WSU Researchers’ Model Identifies Vulnerable Transmission Towers In Extreme Wind Events, Determines Retrofits To Prevent Outages