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Seattle to sign agreement concerning Skagit River dams

Seattle City Light is set to spend millions on fish passage, habitat restoration, and compensation to tribes in the coming decades after the city’s leaders greenlit a massive agreement concerning its dams on the upper Skagit River on Tuesday, April 7.
- Sophia Gates / Cascadia Daily News
Every tire produces a chemical that kills coho salmon. Can scientists pump the brakes?

What do you do when one of the most lethal substances to aquatic life emanates from every tire on the road?
- Stephen Howie
The Stillaguamish Tribe gives its river north of Seattle room to roam

“Now the river can connect to its floodplain like it hasn't in 140 years.”
- John Ryan
Endangered orcas return to Puget Sound without newborn J64, presumed dead

Almost the entire population of southern resident killer whales gathered in central Puget Sound on Sunday, but the newest member of J Pod, a newborn known as J64, was not among them.
- John Ryan
Seattle Mariners fans have Humpy fever. Is it catching?

If you had gone to every Seattle Mariners regular season home game over the last couple of years, you would have seen that only one participant lost every contest, 167 times. That losing streak broke in a big way last Friday night in the 15th inning of the incredibly tense Game 5 of the American League Division Series. In the T-Mobile Park Salmon Run, Humpy came from behind, pushing past King Salmon, Sockeye, and Silver for the win. That unexpected victory started a cascade of Humpy-related happenings that seems to have no end in sight. To find out more, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked Seattle Times reporter Taylor Blatchford, who is writing about the phenomenon.
- Kim Malcolm
Environment reporter Lynda Mapes dove into Seattle’s Elliott Bay, and found some big changes

It's peak tourism season in downtown Seattle. Residents and visitors have been celebrating the $800 million dollar makeover of the waterfront. Is the same true for residents and visitors under the surface of Elliott Bay? To consider that question, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm reached out this week to environment reporter Lynda Mapes. The two took a shallow dive into Mapes’ most recent piece for the Seattle Times, "The vibrant world under Seattle’s new waterfront."
- Kim Malcolm
Northwest tribes: Treaties mean Trump can’t ax salmon funding

Northwest tribal officials say the Trump administration’s latest budget proposal would violate their treaty rights to catch salmon.
- John Ryan
City planned to withhold West Seattle light rail environmental concerns from regulators, public

Internal City of Seattle communications leaked to KUOW show that officials planned to withhold some environmental concerns from the public and federal regulators regarding Sound Transit’s planned West Seattle Link light rail extension.
- Ann Dornfeld
A record-size run of pink salmon may be headed toward Washington state

Biologists expect a record number of pink salmon to return to Puget Sound and Washington rivers and streams this year. And while that may seem like a good signal about salmon habitat, it's also raising some concerns.
- Kim Malcolm
Trump admin aims to gut salmon spending

The Trump White House wants to eliminate several programs that benefit Pacific salmon, the iconic but widely threatened species of the Pacific Northwest.
- John Ryan

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