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  • Good news: Maybe a fine sockeye salmon year for Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    A record summer for returning sockeye. By Scott Learn. Newhouse News Service “Sockeye salmon, an oceangoing species that starts and ends its life hundreds of river miles inland, are swimming up the Columbia River this summer in numbers unseen in five decades.” First sockeye comes home to Idaho. By Rocky Barker – Idaho Statesman

  • Indian tribes make a billion dollar deal on salmon. Idaho's tribes did not participate

    Ralph Maughan

    4 tribes agree to settlement on restoring salmon runs. By Hal Bernton. Seattle Times. Environmentalists: Agreements won’t save salmon. Deals reached with Idaho and Northwest tribes provide funding for habitat work. By Greg Stahl. Idaho Mountain Express. Related, the presidential candidates on dams and salmon. Candidates not ready to take sides on salmon, dams. By…

  • Spring chinook return at snail's pace to Columbia River

    Ralph Maughan

    After the unexplained virtual disappearce of the salmon run in the Sacremento River after the best run in many years, the slow return of chinoock salmon into the Columbia has folks on edge. Rocky Barker writes about it today. Idaho Statesman. Update added April 11. Sharp Curb on Salmon Season. By FELICITY BARRINGER. New York…

  • British Columbia pine beetle infestation impacting salmon runs

    Ralph Maughan

    Pine beetle infestation impacting salmon runs. Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun. Just a reminder to those politicians and others who say we need a rapid plan to save the pines in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, etc. The pine beetle infestation covers the pine forests from Alaska south to northern New Mexico. It will have varying impacts such…

  • Judge Redden tells feds to fix damage to salmon from dams or else

    Ralph Maughan

    The federal judge pressing the government to remedy the damage Columbia River dams wreak on protected salmon warned Wednesday of “very harsh” consequences if federal agencies fail to find a solution. This is from the story in the Oregonian by Michael Milstein on the federal judge’s views on the biological opinion that is emerging from…

  • Idaho's Delegation backs Craig's salmon water rider. Lawmakers want to ensure Idaho's voice in the salmon debate won't be muted.

    Ralph Maughan

    With Larry Craig’s loss of power, the other three of Idaho’s congressional delegation have taken up has efforts to make sure nothing is done to help the salmon and steelhead that still manage to migrate (just barely) from the ocean back to where they were hatched to lay eggs and spawn. The delegations’ position has…

  • Craig's Fall May Benefit Salmon

    Ralph Maughan

    Craig’s Fall May Benefit Salmon. By Matthew Daily. Associated Press. Craig is the most hostile of any senator to conserving the salmon and steelhead runs, and with very little support he had held up many measures to assure these anadromous fish would continue to spawn in Idaho, migrate downstream as smolts to the ocean and…

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