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  • As dams fall, a chance for redemption

    Visits to three Western dams – California’s doomed Matilija Dam, the unfinished Elk Creek Dam in Oregon, and the Southwest’s giant Glen Canyon Dam – lead the author to consider the fact that sooner or later, every dam crumbles

    by Daniel McCool, Jun 21, 2004

  • Corps stands behind status quo

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says that, because of drought, changing the management of the Missouri River and its dams to benefit endangered fish and birds must be postponed.

    by Joshua Zaffos, Nov 11, 2002

  • Dredging up debate

    Port of Portland officials and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers want to dredge the Columbia River, but a series of articles in The Oregonian reveals major flaws in the plan, resulting in a controversial exchange between dredgers and critics.

    by Julie Elliott, May 13, 2002

  • 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

    Fish and Wildlife Service biologists in talks with Army Corps over Missouri River; Wyoming rancher Frank Robbins holds protest rally; "Volunteer Grazing Permit Buying Act" in Congress; and Interior ordered to pay tribes $2 million to make up for drilling

    by Laura Paskus, Nov 24, 2003

  • Going Native

    A unique training program helps the Army Corps of Engineers work better with tribes

    by Christine Hoekenga, Dec 11, 2007
  • Mount St. Helens: A world apart?

    Mount St. Helens: A world apart?

    Washington's Mount St. Helens is protected as a living volcanic-recovery laboratory, but a completely "natural" environment has never been possible.

    by Lisa Song, Mar 13, 2011
  • Non-navigable River Blues

    Non-navigable River Blues

    An obscure legal ruling muddied U.S. water-protection standards, leaving Western intermittent streams and rivers unprotected.

    by Tony Davis, Feb 02, 2009

  • The Latest Bounce

    Mining company allowed to dump waste into Alaskan lake; Colorado split-estate bill unravels; Arizona’s Oak Flat may become a copper mine

    by Jodi Peterson, May 01, 2006

  • This isn't your daddy's Republican party, either

    by Stephen Jenkins, Jun 21, 2004

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