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  • Bonneville Power Administration's disinformation on salmon recovery

    Ralph Maughan

    “Salmon success recasts debate,” headline reads. . . an odd way of defining “success”- BPA’s spin cloaks its role in blocking real salmon recovery. By Ed Chaney. Idaho Statesman

  • Plan to protect Yellowstone Park's fish is being developed

    Ralph Maughan

    Comments wanted on the Park’s Native Fish Conservation Plan Environmental Assessment- The Park’s fish have taken a real beating the last 20 years from disease and the introduction of lake trout into Yellowstone Lake. Your comments are due Jan. 31, 2011. “The preferred alternative would conserve the Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake by increased…

  • "Extinct" Japanese salmonid found unextinguished after 70 years

    Ralph Maughan

    Living black kokanee found . . . enough for a recovery- Scientist says he found Japanese fish thought extinct. Associated Press. The fish were found in Lake Saiko, about 500 kilometers south of their native lake where they were killed off in the 1940s.

  • Resurgent Northwest salmon show dam ‘spill’ is better than barging

    Ken Cole

    The fish do better in the river than they do in a barge. I’m not really a fan of Rocky Barker because I think he is biased towards the collaborative process because it has worked within the framework of the Snake River salmon and steelhead issue. When contrasted with other collaborative processes this issue has…

  • Hatch-22: The Problem with the Pacific Salmon Resurgence

    Ken Cole

    More salmon but more of them are of hatchery origin The proportion of hatchery versus wild Pacific salmon has risen to 1 in 5 with an overall production of 5 billion smolts produced annually, up from just 500 million in 1970. There are problems which stem from this. For imperiled salmon, the competition and genetic…

  • Wyoming Water Development Commission against proposed Green River dam

    Ralph Maughan

    Commission calls it “too expensive, unnecessary and bad for recreation and the environment”- This proposal is so obnoxious I couldn’t believe it was real the first time I heard about it. This is a world class fishing river and the reservoir would cut off the famed pronghorn migration route from the Red Desert to Grand…

  • Big Fuel Spill from Rig on U.S. 12 (Lochsa River)

    Ralph Maughan

    Even before the big oil modules, the river has been greatly threatened. This happened just before the big Idaho Supreme Court hearing on the judge’s order stopping the oil module transport- Big Fuel Spill from Rig on U.S. 12. By George Prentice. Boise Weekly. Tanker crashes and spills fuel along US Highway 12. Associated Press…

  • Disgusting deformed fish show up below giant Alberta tar sands pits

    Ralph Maughan

    Condition of fish in Lake Athabasca appall scientists, natives- The tar sand pits have been called the world’s greatest on-going environmental disaster.  Many are fingering the pits as the cause of hideously deformed fish showing up downstream. Mutant fish lead to calls for Ottawa to monitor oil sands. Bob Weber. Edmonton — The Canadian Press.…

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