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Obama Administration's Perspectives On Salmon BiOp Due In Court August 14
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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The federal government has requested, and received, more time to decide whether it might consider changes to the strategy it completed a little over a year ago to reduce Columbia-Snake river hydro system impacts on protected salmon stocks.
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June's Liquid Bounty Has All Snake River Basin Reservoirs Full For Farm And Fish
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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Just as flows out of the high country usually begin to taper off, the pulse of water from the upper Snake River has built to a new crest thanks to a series of storms that have spread across the southern part of the Columbia River basin this month.
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Feds, State Aim For 'Integrated Approach' To Tackle Yakima Basin Water Issues
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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A newly completed document is expected to provide the framework for a comprehensive water resource management plan aimed at easing water shortages that affect humans and fish in Washington's Yakima River basin.
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Summer Chinook Fishing Off To Good Start, Tribes Urge Caution On Run Forecasting
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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Treaty tribes plan to execute their third lower Columbia River mainstem commercial fishery of the summer season next week, but the effort will be scaled back as compared to previous outings due to concerns that the 2009 summer chinook salmon run may not be as strong as anticipated.
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Kootenai River White Sturgeon: Recovery Focuses On Understanding, Increasing Spawning
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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Pete Rust lifts a rod attached to a buoy from the waters of the Kootenai River, showing off what is used to monitor movements of white sturgeon fitted with sonic transmitters.
Rust, a biologist with Idaho Fish and Game, says there is a network of 60 sonic receivers from Kootenay Lake in British Columbia to the Montana border.
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Kootenai River White Sturgeon: Species' Future Relies On Kootenai Tribe Hatchery Program
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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Genny Hoyle and Kevin James took the first shifts at gently and patiently stirring eggs and milt with feathers, the culmination of an annual, labor-intensive effort to save the endangered Kootenai River white sturgeon.
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Groups Sue FEMA Over Floodplain Development Without Considering Impacts To Salmon
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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A lawsuit filed in federal court in Portland Thursday claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has violated federal law by enabling floodplain development in Oregon without considering impacts on threatened and endangered fish and wildlife species.
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Biologists Hope To Avoid Invasive Small Predatory Fish Becoming Entrenched
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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Lower Columbia River biologists, particularly those conducting fish surveys, are encouraged to watch for a nonnative newcomer to the basin -- the Amur goby.
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More Lake Trout Found In Montana's Swan River Drainage, Poses Threat To Bull Trout
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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Lake trout have turned up in the Montana's Lindbergh Lake, presenting a new threat to the Swan River drainage's population of native bull trout.
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IDAM, Integrated Dam Assessment Modeling, Shows Costs, Benefits Of Building A Dam
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Friday, June 26, 2009 (PST) |
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Scientists have developed a new system to help policy makers better assess the costs and benefits of building dams -- the first system of its kind to use an interdisciplinary approach to simultaneously evaluate the distribution of biophysical, socio-economic and geopolitical impacts of dams, according to one of the study's co-authors.
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