Salmon swim above the Grand Coulee Dam for first time in 80 years
After disease, war, reservation boundaries, and forced boarding schools, one could argue the Grand Coulee Dam was the most harmful impact of colonialism to the …
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The Phoenix in the Elwha
Rob Mosanis, Vice President for Western Conservation for Trout Unlimited, penned this piece about witnessing the recovery of summer run steelhead on the Elwha. Wild …
Tribal leaders Call for Removal of Three Lower Columbia River Dams
The Yakama and Lummi nations have called for the removal of three main stem dams on the Columbia to restore salmon runs once the mightiest …
Ninth Circuit Orders Feds to Reexamine Army Corps’ Harm to Native Fish
The National Marine Fisheries Service owes an explanation for why it decided that two dams on the Yuba River do not adversely affect threatened Chinook …
A Look Back at Glen Canyon Before the Dam
Ken Sleight remembers the stunning beauty of Glen Canyon before it was flooded by a massive dam in the 1960s. Taylor Graham’s film “Seldom Seen …
Snake River Dams’ Hydropower Is No Longer Particularly Cheap
The first article in this series made the case for removing the dams on the Snake River because of the importance we place on wild salmon, drawing …
Changes at Nevada dam to help Lahontan trout
Officials for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe broke ground Tuesday for a $23.5 million fish-passage project …
The Case for Removing the Snake River Dams
Sightline Institute, an independent, nonprofit research center, has launched a weeklong series highlighting the economic benefits of removing four dams on the lower Snake River. Part …
Solar could replace all US hydro dams using ‘just 13% of the space’
According to a new study banks of solar panels would be able to replace every electricity-producing dam in the US using just 13% of the …
Snake River dam spills up to 300 gallons of oil into river
Up to 300 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Snake River from a leaking, power-generating turbine at Lower Monumental Dam. It’s not the …