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Salmon advocates ask to include healthy ecosystems in Columbia River Treaty

The United States and Canada will renegotiate how to handle flood control and hydropower on the Columbia River. However, salmon advocates also want negotiators to consider the health of the Columbia River ecosystem.
Courtney Flatt
The last of the Salish Sea reefnetters don't want to be the last

Only 12 commercial fishing captains hold permits to go reefnet fishing in the Pacific Northwest out of a fleet that once numbered in the hundreds. The distinctive technique of reefnet fishing dates back thousands of years as a traditional Indigenous method to catch salmon. Its practitioners today say the gear should be the preferred way to harvest healthy salmon runs while avoiding fragile stocks.
Tom Banse
Federal report recommends removing four Lower Snake River dams to protect salmon

Breaching the Snake River dams is one major way to protect salmon. That’s according to a federal report on salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin that came out today.
Courtney Flatt
Breaching the four Lower Snake River dams not an option right now, say Murray, Inslee

A much-awaited report said removing the four Lower Snake River dams shouldn't happen right now, but dam removal is the best way to protect Snake River salmon.
Courtney Flatt
Federal report recommends breaching Lower Snake River dams to restore salmon

Climate change is hurting salmon in the Columbia River Basin. According to a draft report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there are several solutions, including breaching the four Lower Snake River dams.
Courtney Flatt
Environment

Time is running out for salmon as the Snake River dam removal debate enters a new phase

‘If these dams were to be taken down for salmon recovery, it would be the largest dam removal ever in the world, and the first-ever takedown of federally owned dams.’ –Lynda Mapes
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst
Environment

New draft report says removing the Snake River dams would be best for salmon

Breaching the dams would be the best way to remove Snake River salmon runs from the Endangered Species List and the best way to maintain treaty and trust obligations with tribes, according to the report. It could cost from $10.3 billion to $27.2 billion.
Courtney Flatt
Environment

'It's bringing healing:' Methow Valley land returned to Colville Tribes

More than a century after the United States government took most of their land, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation are getting small chunks of it back.
John Ryan
Environment

The city where salmon might be the most famous residents: Travel For Good

KUOW is spotlighting local travel ideas that are good for more than just a pretty post on Instagram. In this installment of our Travel for Good series, we take you to the city of Issaquah, where salmon are some of the most famous residents.
Diana Opong
Environment

Seattle fish research could shake up global tire industry

Research from the Seattle area has found that tires shed a fish-killing chemical into local streams.
John Ryan

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