High Country News

Obama disappoints when it comes to salmon

The latest Columbia and Snake river salmon plan largely ratified the Bush administration's inadequate approach.

by Michael Blumm, Oct 13, 2009
Tribes try selective fishing to boost catch without harming wild salmon

Washington's Colville Tribes experiment with selective fishing techniques and bring home more salmon than before.

by Dawn Stover, Dec 15, 2011
Everyday objects and extraordinary journeys

In Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country, Northwestern writer Jack Nisbet follows the Columbia River and its inhabitants across time

by Steve Rumsey, Feb 07, 2005
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
A Nez Perce elder spreads love for lamprey

Nez Perce elder Elmer Crow teaches children and their parents to respect an uncharismatic parasitic fish, the lamprey.

by Amanda Peacher, Feb 08, 2011
Singing about a land where free rivers flow on

Woody Guthrie's long history of writing about dams and hydropower.

by Pat Ford, Oct 18, 2012
Columbia River dams revived

In Washington, tribes have been shut out of a plan for new Columbia River dams that are being touted as good for salmon as well as farmers

by Matt Jenkins, Apr 03, 2006
An encyclopedia of rivers

The huge, copiously illustrated Rivers of North America is the first comprehensive effort to detail the current state of the continent’s rivers

by Irene Wanner, Nov 27, 2006
Want to protect a river? Get out and swim it

Christopher Swain talks about the year he spent swimming the entire 1,243-mile length of the Columbia River to help raise awareness of the river and its problems

by Krissy Clark, Aug 04, 2003
One good example: The reporter

Karen Dorn Steele of the Spokane Spokesman-Review showed how a reporter at a regional paper can have a national impact, when she uncovered the extent of radioactive contamination at Hanford Nuclear Reservation

by Ray Ring, Oct 13, 2003