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Snake River Salmon

  • Feds: No major changes for Columbia Basin salmon

    Ken Cole

    Judge Redden said the Bush Plan for salmon wasn’t good enough, Obama thinks it is. Well, here is another example of how the Obama Administration has followed the lead of the Bush Administration on environmental issues. As we can see from the Gulf Oil Spill those policies are literally a disaster. While salmon returns have…

  • Panel recommends spilling, barging of salmon

    Ken Cole

    Mixed strategy recommended by independent panel for 2010 NOAA Fisheries wanted to barge all of the salmon from the Snake River around the dams and not spill any water over them because of the low water year that is predicted to be 54% of the normal flow. An independent panel said no and suggested that…

  • DAMS: Corps releases possible dam breaching plan of study

    Ken Cole

    Plan required as part of the Adaptive Management Plan The Army Corps of Engineers has released a plan of how they will study dam removal if it becomes necessary to remove one or more of the four Lower Snake River dams. DAMS: Corps releases possible dam breaching plan of study Tri-City Herald

  • Judge finds fault with federal salmon plan

    Ralph Maughan

    Are we one step closer to removal of the Snake River Dams? Judge finds fault with federal salmon plan. Conservation groups optimistic about order. By Jon Duval. Idaho Mountain Express. These dams are on the lower Snake River. That’s in the state of Washington, but they greatly harm salmon and steelhead migration to and from…

  • Fate of Idaho salmon plays out in tiny Marsh Creek

    Ralph Maughan

    Wild salmon increasingly spawn in tiny Marsh Creek and other small central Idaho waters- Fate of Idaho salmon plays out in tiny Marsh Creek. The fish that spawn here are among the most vulnerable in the region. Will Obama’s plan help if the population plummets? By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman. About 5 years ago, I…

  • Record returns for sockeye salmon in Sawtooth Valley

    Ralph Maughan

    833 sockeye made the trip back to the Sawtooth Valley from the ocean this year- This is a great success from the not too distant past when only one salmon returned — “Lonesum Larry” Record sockeye salmon return. By Jon Duval. Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer

  • More of Obama's weak salmon recovery plan

    Ralph Maughan

    Obama’s “warmed-over-Dubya plan” for salmon is good enough to irritate Rep. Doc Hastings, however- We posted on this earlier. Reaction continues to come. Under Obama’s new salmon plan, breeching the dams on the Snake River in that state of Washington would be a last resort, rather than the plan salmon recovery advocates had hoped for…

  • Obama Repackages Bush Salmon Plan

    Ken Cole

    Calls Dam Breaching a “Last Resort” “The administration’s passing reference to dam breaching as a ‘contingency of last resort’ defers all necessary economic, infrastructure and other studies, making this ‘contingency’ an illusion,” said Samuel N. Penney, the chairman of the Nez Perce American Indian Tribe, which has traditionally fished the Columbia. New Federal Plan for…

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