FEEDBACK: Protecting Snake River Basin Wild Spring/Summer Chinook, Steelhead From Extinction Requires Lower Snake Dam Removal
January 13th, 2022
Feedback comments in the January 6, CBB from Mr. Fred Mensik regarding “Removing Lower Snake dams will not return salmon, steelhead to historic spawning habitat,” are inaccurate and misleading.
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NW RiverPartners Releases Poll Showing 60 Percent Support For Keeping Lower Snake Dams In Place
December 22nd, 2021
One week after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee released a package of salmon recovery strategies that includes proposed funding for a study of the impacts of removing the four Lower Snake dams, Northwest RiverPartners released the results of commissioned poll showing nearly 60 percent of respondents opposed dam breaching.
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Federal Agencies Announce Completion Of Major Overhaul Of Grand Coulee Dam Power Units, Work Began In 2008
December 22nd, 2021
The Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration announced this week the completion of the major overhaul of three hydroelectric power units at Grand Coulee Dam, the largest power generating complex in the United States.
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Court Approves Interim Actions For Aiding ESA-Listed Willamette Valley Salmon, Steelhead; Ninth Circuit Appeal Possible
December 16th, 2021
A federal court approved this month details on the “how” of fish passage, drawdowns and spill designed to aid salmon and steelhead passage at Willamette River dams, even as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing a new environmental impact statement for the agency’s 13 Willamette Valley Project dams.
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Washington Governor Announces $187 Million Salmon Recovery Package, Includes Funds For ‘Snake River Mitigation Study’
December 16th, 2021
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee this week said he is seeking $187 million during the 2022 legislative session for salmon recovery strategies, including funds for studying the impacts of breaching the four Lower Snake River dams.
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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: As We End The Year, Big Decisions For Columbia River Basin Salmon Recovery Dangle On Hold
December 9th, 2021
Where are we today, closing days of the year, with management of Columbia River Basin salmon recovery?
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Corps Sued For Operating Lower Columbia River Dams Without Pollution Permits; EPA Says Permit Delay Stems From Oregon Objection
December 9th, 2021
A Northwest conservation group is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for operating the agency’s lower Columbia River dams without U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollutant permits.
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Drought: Flow Augmentation From Idaho For Salmon Tight This Year, Uncertainty Looms For 2022
December 9th, 2021
Some 427,000 acre feet of water was available this year from the upper Snake River to augment flows for juvenile and adult salmon and steelhead migrating in the lower river.
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Managers Kept Lower Granite Reservoir Cool During Hot Water Year, But ESA-Listed Sockeye Slammed Farther Downstream; ‘Smoking Gun’
December 2nd, 2021
In an exceptionally low flow and warm water year, Idaho’s Dworshak Dam water in 2021 was creatively preserved and used to help keep water cool downstream to aid salmon and steelhead migrating in the river at Lower Granite Dam on the lower Snake River.