High Country News

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
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
Fish face-off

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

by Lee van der Voo, Jun 21, 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
Grace behind glass

An fish ladder on the Columbia River provides a view of unexpected wonders.

by Ana Maria Spagna, Nov 11, 2010
Kayaking memories on the White Salmon River

Will all of a kayaker's memories of Washington's White Salmon River change once the river changes, now that Condit Dam is gone?

by Mike Barenti, May 24, 2012
Property-rights lawyers score one against wild salmon

NOAA Fisheries is drafting new regulations that will allow hatchery-raised fish to be counted along with wild salmon and steelhead, a move that property-rights lawyers hope will take the species off the endangered list

by Ray Ring, May 24, 2004