ABOUT THE COLUMBIA BASIN BULLETIN

The Columbia Basin Bulletin's objective is to keep readers fully informed about significant developments related to salmon and steelhead recovery and other important Columbia/Snake River Basin fish and wildlife issues.

The E-Mail Newsletter:

The Columbia Basin Bulletin offers a free newsletter delivered each week by e-mail to subscribers interested in timely, straightforward, complete news about Basin fish and wildlife issues. Each edition is also posted on this site at the time of distribution.

The free newsletter is a Columbia Basin stakeholder information tool supported with Bonneville Power Administration fish and wildlife funds through the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's Regional Fish and Wildlife Program.

To subscribe go to Free Newsletter.

The CBB Website:

The Columbia Basin Bulletin website is published independently by Intermountain Communications of Bend, Oregon. 

The CBB Website offers continuous postings of key news and information about Columbia/Snake River Basin fish and wildlife issues, along with complete Archives reaching back to 1998. The CBB Archives offer the most complete news record of Columbia/Snake River Basin salmon recovery.

For as little as $5 a month, Members of the CBB Website receive full access to the continuous postings and the Archives. The modest membership fee helps support the newsgathering, the website and archival maintenance.

Who We Are

Bill Crampton, owner of Intermountain Communications, serves as editor and publisher of both the website and e-mail newsletter. Crampton has a bachelor's degree in journalism from University of Washington and master's degree in history from Washington State University. He worked for 20 years as a newspaper reporter and editor in Alaska and the Northwest. Crampton launched Intermountain Communications in 1997 as an information services company specializing in natural resource issues. Crampton is located in Bend, OR and can be reached at bcrampton@cbbulletin.com

Barry Espenson of Vancouver, Wash. is senior writer. He has journalism degree from the University of Oregon and worked for 20 years as a newspaper reporter and editor in the Northwest, often specializing in natural resource and agriculture issues. You can reach Espenson at bespenson@msn.com