Alaska is about to get thousands of miles of new salmon habitat — and how we manage that habitat will have long-term implications for the salmon that find it. By the year 2100, melting glaciers will ...
With salmon returning to the upper reaches of the Klamath River following the removal of four dams, the newly established ...
Alaskans will soon vote on Ballot Measure 1, the controversial initiative aimed at protecting Alaska’s salmon habitat. Companies behind big proposed mines and oil developments have helped raise ...
Fish passage restoration is not just a treaty rights issue — it benefits the entire region. No matter the expense, culvert repair is one of the most cost-effective ways to increase the number of ...
Jonathan Moore of Simon Fraser University studies sockeye salmon in a formerly glaciated river within the Taku watershed in British Columbia, Canada. (Photo courtesy of Mark Connor) The Gitanyow ...
SEQUIM — In building logjams for salmon habitat in the Gray Wolf River, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe took lessons from the river itself. By building structures out of logs with rootwads and using ...
PORT ANGELES — After 71 years confined to a narrow channel, Morse Creek has been set free. The North Olympic Salmon Coalition and its partner agencies last month reactivated 2,400 feet of the channel ...
As human-caused climate change points a giant hair dryer at Western North America’s glaciers, melting them ever more rapidly, potential Pacific salmon habitat is opening up. New river systems are ...
On a research boat on the Columbia River, Laurie Weitkamp with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grabs two buckets filled with water and about a dozen young salmon and steelhead.
Because the Sheepscot is home to the southernmost genetically distinct population of salmon, we often think about this river as “holding the line” for the species. Yet, even though the population in ...
The water in the inlet is calm, but underneath its surface thrives a diverse collection of Pacific Northwest wildlife. A great blue heron perches by tall grasses, whose tips swing softly in the ocean ...
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