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Farmers and conservationists have reached a settlement
that allows water to flow in California’s San Joaquin River,
home to the Friant Dam
by Allison Gerfin,
Jul 24, 2006
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Amateur gold prospectors are invading the West’s
publicly owned streams, and environmentalists say the hobby’s
popularity threatens fish and the environment
by Matthew Preusch,
May 01, 2006
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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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
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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
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The Klamath Basin water bank was intended to end a
tug-of-war over scarce water, but with some farmers selling off
water while other wells go dry, tensions in the Oregon valley are
only getting worse
by Rebecca Clarren,
Oct 17, 2005
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A longtime consultant to the hydropower industry,
biologist Don Chapman, shook the Northwest this summer when he
declared that four dams on the Lower Snake River should be breached
to save the salmon
by Rocky Barker,
Sep 19, 2005
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The Nez Perce Tribe says that salmon-killing dams -- such
as the three in Hells Canyon whose licenses are up for renewal this
year – amount to an illegal "taking" of the tribe’s
guaranteed right to fish
by Rachel Odell,
Sep 05, 2005
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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
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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
