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Trump Administration Urged to Avoid Salmon Protection Rules
Trump Administration Urged to Avoid Salmon Protection Rules
Trump Administration Urged to Avoid Salmon Protection Rules
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A group that represents farmers says saving imperiled salmon in the largest river system in the Pacific Northwest is too costly and is turning to the Trump administration. The Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association wants the government to convene a Cabinet-level committee known as the "God Squad" with the power to allow exemptions to the Endangered Species Act...
Corps: Oil Leaked From Dam Into Snake River Over 7 Months
Corps: Oil Leaked From Dam Into Snake River Over 7 Months
Corps: Oil Leaked From Dam Into Snake River Over 7 Months
KAHLOTUS, Wash. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says oil has slowly leaked into the Snake River at Lower Monumental Lock and Dam in southeast Washington state over seven months. The federal agency, which operates the dam, said Tuesday that an estimated 742 gallons (2,808 liters) of oil leaked into the water in that time...
House Members Send Letter Opposing Dam Breaching
House Members Send Letter Opposing Dam Breaching
House Members Send Letter Opposing Dam Breaching
SPOKANE (AP) — U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse and numerous other Republican lawmakers have sent a letter opposing the removal of four dams on the Snake River to restore wild runs of salmon. The lawmakers sent the letter on Thursday to members of the House Appropriations Committee, asking that money be retained in the federal budget to operate the dams...
Judge’s Order Revives Movement to Remove Snake River Dams
Judge’s Order Revives Movement to Remove Snake River Dams
Judge’s Order Revives Movement to Remove Snake River Dams
SPOKANE (AP) — Conservationists and others have renewed a push to remove four giant dams from the Snake River in southeast Washington to save wild salmon runs. They're speaking up after a federal judge in Portland, Oregon, earlier this year rejected the government's latest plan for protecting threatened and endangered salmon in the Columbia River system...
Judge Says Plan for Restoring Northwest Salmon Runs Not Enough
Judge Says Plan for Restoring Northwest Salmon Runs Not Enough
Judge Says Plan for Restoring Northwest Salmon Runs Not Enough
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon says a massive habitat restoration effort doesn't do enough to improve Northwest salmon runs. U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon in Portland on Wednesday rejected the federal government's plan for offsetting the damage that dams in the Columbia River Basin pose to the fish...
New Record Set for Fall Chinook Redds in Snake River
New Record Set for Fall Chinook Redds in Snake River
New Record Set for Fall Chinook Redds in Snake River
KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — New data released by the Nez Perce Tribe shows that fall chinook returning to the Snake River have set a new record for the third straight year. The Tri-City Herald reports that the data shows a new record of 9,345 redds, or gravel nests, were built by returning adults in the Snake River Basin between Lower Granite and Hells Canyon dams. ...

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