By now, the dredging machinery would have been sucking 319,000 cubic yards of sand and silt from the bottom of the Snake River west of Lewiston, Idaho. Barges would be hauling the muck downriver and dumping it out of the way. Then tugboats would have dragged giant rakes across the spoils, trying to recreate habitat […]
Eric Barker
Posted inMay 22, 2000: Save Our Sagebrush
Service says dams should stay put
NORTHWEST The federal agency charged with recovering endangered salmon won’t recommend dismantling dams – at least for now (HCN, 12/20/99: Unleashing the Snake). Will Stelle, regional director of the National Marine Fisheries Service, said recently that his agency wants to table the breaching debate for five to 10 years while it tries to boost salmon […]
Posted inMay 8, 2000: After the fall
A bear of a plan
Grizzly bears could be reintroduced to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area in a little more than a year, if a final environmental impact statement proceeds as planned. The Fish and Wildlife Service’s preferred alternative of the grizzly plan calls for a citizen’s management committee to oversee reintroduction of a non-essential experimental grizzly bear population. The Interior […]
Posted inFebruary 28, 2000: Acre by acre
To breach or not to breach
Salmon advocates stand up for tearing down dams
Posted inJanuary 17, 2000: STOP
Chainsaws fall silent in Cove-Mallard
NEZ PERCE NATIONAL FOREST, Idaho – Just a few years ago, Cove-Mallard, a roadless area, was a rallying cry for anti-logging activists. As bulldozers pushed into the rolling mountains above the Salmon River in north-central Idaho, protesters locked themselves to gates, buried each other under piles of slash and erected and perched in a series […]