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  • A river sacrificed

    On Washington's Tieton River, an attempt to help one endangered fish, the spring chinook, has harmed another, the threatened steelhead.

    by Gisela Telis, Dec 24, 2007

  • Relicensing dams hangs on warm water, endangered fish

    Idaho Power Company needs permits from Idaho, Oregon and the federal government

    by Ken Olsen, Jan 30, 2008
  • Fish face-off

    Fish face-off

    A proposal to ban gillnets in Oregon has commercial fishermen up in arms.

    by Lee van der Voo, Jun 21, 2010
  • Reduce, reuse, re ... steelhead?

    Reduce, reuse, re ... steelhead?

    In Oregon, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife carefully “recycles" hatchery-raised steelhead.

    by Nick Neely, Apr 20, 2010

  • Follow-up

    More than 33,000 fish died in Klamath River in 2002; Bill Barrett Corp. gets go-ahead for seismic testing near Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon; Building 771 at Rocky Flats demolished; Kennewick Man will not be reburied

    by Laura Paskus, Aug 16, 2004

  • Follow-up

    Army Corps of Engineers will have to release water from Columbia and Snake river dams to help salmon; Montana mining ban is not a property "taking"; kinks in plan to drill for natural gas at Colorado nuclear site.

    by Laura Paskus, Jun 27, 2005

  • Follow-up

    Judge Dee Benson reconsiders the Norton-Leavitt 2003 wilderness settlement; New Mexico’s Otero Mesa back on the oil and gas auction block; former NOAA administrator James Lecky accused of doctoring science in controversial biological opinion

    by Matt Jenkins, Aug 22, 2005
  • Dam removal for dummies

    Dam removal for dummies

    A how-to guide to free-flowing rivers, with illustrations from Oregon's recently removed Gold Ray Dam.

    by Nick Neely, Nov 07, 2010

  • Federal report supports Klamath farmers

    The National Research Council issues a report saying that irrigation shutoffs alone won’t save endangered salmon in the Klamath River Basin of Oregon and California

    by Michael Milstein, Nov 10, 2003

  • Salmon get a break from pesticides

    U.S. District Judge John Coughenour bans the use of 38 pesticides near streams that host endangered runs of salmon and steelhead in Washington, Oregon and California

    by Jodi Peterson, Feb 16, 2004
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