Columbia Basin Bulletin https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Pacific Salmon Recovery Bright Spot: Habitat Work, Recent Cooler Ocean Temperatures A Boon For Hood Canal Summer-Run Chum 4. EPA REPORT SHOWS RISK OF TRIBAL MEMBERS EATING FISH Senators Urge Trump Administration To Pause Federal Rulemakings During COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency, Extend Comment Periods EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Will Governors’ Pledge To Seek ‘Collaborative Framework’ Change Trajectory Of Columbia Basin Salmon Recovery? Lower Columbia Navigation Channel: Dredged Material Sites Nearing Capacity, Corps Preparing New Placement Plan To Maintain Channel Until 2044 Interior Launches New Effort To Develop New Tribal Consultation Policy Guest Column: Gorton Amendment To NW Power Act Moved Goal Posts, Created New Ones Slowing Tribal Programs To Restore Wild Salmon Runs With Dam Removals Proceeding, CDFW Releases Millions Of Chinook Salmon Smolts Into Klamath River BPA Reverses Decision To End SAFE Hatchery Program Funding By Agreeing To One-Year Extension; Move Offers Time For Alternative Funding Pacific Fishing Effort Mapping Project: A Geographic Grid Covering Waters Off West Coast Consolidates Location, Decades Of Catch Data, Fisheries Revenue  Drought Conditions Pushing Bears Into Places Normally Wouldn’t Visit When Natural Foods Abundant; IDFG Seeing More Bear Reports Than Usual Fisheries Biologist III/Senior – Chelan PUD – Wenatchee, WA Center For Biological Diversity Says USFWS Lost 36 Percent Of Staff Since 2024 WDOE Issues Notice Of Environmental Violations In Longview Tank Failure, Untreated White Liquor Reached Columbia River Birds And Salmon: Northwest Power/Conservation Council Gets The Stats On Avian Predation Of ESA Salmon Smolts Columbia River Steelhead In Trouble? 2026 Shaping Up To Be ‘One Of The Poorest Steelhead Returns In Modern History’ Beaver Dam Analogues: Research Shows How ‘BDAs’ Increase Juvenile Salmon Survival, Adult Returns In Parched Klamath Basin Creeks ODFW Responding To First Known Cases Of Respiratory Pathogen In John Day River Bighorn Sheep Herd, Exploring Options NOAA Fisheries Tracking Indicators That Will Signal El Nino’s Arrival On West Coast, Likely To Be Very Strong Coastal Squeeze: UBC Review Shows How Rising Seas Threaten Shorebirds, Urges Planners To Give Coastal Wetlands Room To Grow Inland City Life: UW Research Looks At Why Urban Coyote Density Higher Than In Wild Areas, 9 Times Higher In Seattle Than Northeast Washington This Month in 2006 | RESEARCH USES DNA TO IDENTIFY OCEAN SALMON’S HOME RIVER Study Details Impressive Return Of Chinook Salmon To Reconnected Habitat In Klamath River Basin Two Years After Dam Removal Salmon Survival In Warming Climate: New Research Shows Cool River Temps In First 15 Days After Eggs Fertilized Crucial For Survival OSU Study Shows Northern Spotted Owl Already Functionally Extinct In Large Swaths Of PNW Range WDFW Completes Plan To Guide Fish, Wildlife, Habitat Conservation For Next 10 Years Study Shows Outfitting Wind Turbines With New Audio Deterrent System Can Reduce Raptor Collisions This Month in 2006 | ADVISORY GROUP NAMED FOR WASHINGTON’S COLUMBIA RIVER PLAN This Month in 2016 | Bill Includes Provision To Return ‘Ancient One’ (Kennewick Man) To ‘Appropriate Resting Place’ 8. TRIBES SEEK BIA CONTRACT FOR FISHING SITES This Month in 2021 | EPA Issues Salish Sea Health Report With 10 Indicators; Chinook (Declining), Killer Whales (Declining), Water Quality (Declining) This Month in 2006 | AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY PUBLISHES ‘SALMON 2100’ BOOK This Month in 2021 | Upper Missouri River Basin Study Identifies Strategies For Meeting Water Demands During Climate Change; Adjusting To Changing Runoff Patterns This Month in 2016 | Biologists Suspect Pathogen PKD Responsible For Killing Thousands Of Whitefish In South Fork Snake BPA Says Off-Channel Hatchery Salmon Program Not Meeting Agency Goals, Funding Halt Puts 7 Million Chinook, Coho In Production At Risk This Month in 2016 | Cooler Water Continues To Flow In Lower Snake River; Fish Ladder Cooling Now Also At Little Goose Council Draft Power Plan Says NW Federal Power Demand To Grow 50-100 Percent In 20 Years, Partly Driven Near-Term By New Data Centers Analysis Of Snake River Sockeye Run Breaks Down Fish Trapped For Broodstock, Or Released In Sawtooths, Or Swam Entire Journey Murkowski Introduces ‘Fisheries Science Modernization Act’ Allowing NOAA Fisheries To Incorporate E-DNA Into Science Programs, Stock Assessments Groundwater Pumping Can Reduce Streamflow For Salmon; Study Looks At How Cannabis Farming In California Dries Up Streams In Summer Trump Administration Proposes Throwing Out Roadless Area Rule For National Forests, In PNW Key Habitat For Salmon, Steelhead Washington State’s Only Coal Power Plant Shifting To Natural Gas By 2028, Will Serve As Power Backup For Region University Of British Columbia Study Details Why Illegal Industrial Ocean Fishing So Hard To Stop: Subsidies, Fragmented Enforcement American Meteorological Society’s State Of Climate Report Shows Greenhouse Gas, Ocean Levels, Ocean Heat Hit Record Levels In 2025 Bonneville Power Says Forecast For End-Of-Year Net Revenues Declined Since May, Now Expects To Be $49 Million Below Target Washington State Formally Bans Net Pen Aquaculture Seven Years After Net Pen Collapse Released Atlantic Salmon Into Puget Sound This Month in 2021 | UBC Study: Climate Change Likely To Leave Arctic Predators With Shrinking Diet, Less Energy Gained For Foraging NOAA Seeks Comments On Renewal Of Snake River Sockeye Hatchery Broodstock Program; Fish On Brink Of Extinction Since 1990s Terms & Conditions home