High Country News

Doctor's Orders: Undam the Klamath

Both Indians and whites battle diabetes on the Klamath watershed, where dam building ended the salmon runs that once kept the First People alive.

by Diana Hartel, May 24, 2011
Eccentricity and wildness

Western eccentrics are found underwater as well as in the high country.

by Ray Ring, Jun 20, 2010
Elwha River dams move closer to destruction

Two massive dams on Washington's Elwha River will be demolished to restore salmon runs.

by Michelle Blank, Mar 14, 2007
The Klamath dams by the numbers

A new report shows salmon-killing dams would cost less to remove than to keep.

by Erin Halcomb, Apr 03, 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
Revival or dam-nation?

The push for alternative power could spawn a rush for small hydropower projects in the Northwest.

by Joshua Zaffos, Jul 31, 2009
Fighting development in floodplains

Conservationists challenge insurance program that harms salmon and other endangered species.

by Lisa Stiffler/InvestigateWest, Jan 04, 2013
A fish is a fish is a fish - or is it?

A draft policy released by the National Marine Fisheries Service in July does little to resolve the controversy over whether hatchery salmon and steelhead deserve equal protection with wild fish.

by Laura Paskus, Aug 19, 2002
A bullet for the bearer of bad news

After Michele DeHart of the Fish Passage Center in Portland, Ore., publicly supported a plan to protect salmon, angry lawmakers led by Sen. Larry Craig yanked the center’s funding

by Rocky Barker, Dec 12, 2005
Trouble in the Delta

The San Francisco Bay-Delta Authority votes to disband, even as the Bay-Delta itself -- beset by high water exports, disappearing fish and declining water quality – may be dying

by Matt Jenkins, Feb 06, 2006