Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many involved with tribal fisheries and environmental programs in the Pacific Northwest, Jerimiah Bonifer spends his summer ...

Each year, dredging vessels suck up sediment from the river bottom to keep the Columbia River's shipping channel clear. The impact isn't well understood.

The Columbia River basin consists of several different physiographic regions. There are alpine and subalpine environments in its mountainous regions (the Cascades, Rockies, and related subchains), an ...

There has been a long history in the United States of non-native fish species being introduced into bodies of water, sometimes by accident, other times intentionally. Some of these have been harmless ...

The 2026 federal budget provides some hope for salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin, but mixed signals and conflicting policies continue to sow doubt about the future of the river and its ...

The Columbia Basin has been shaped by forces of unimaginable power. Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape. The field evidence of these cataclysms ...

There is a new king of the Columbia. Each spring, a chrome tide of fish native to the East Coast floods the Northwest's mightiest river by the millions. Shad, not salmon, are thriving in the warm, ...

The nations were trying to finalize updates to the 61-year-old Columbia River Treaty governing shared, cross-border water and hydropower management The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a ...

Additional water spilled over Columbia Basin dams is crucial for migrating juvenile salmon. For over two decades, litigation in the Columbia River Basin over the operation of federal hydropower dams ...

Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups represented by Earthjustice filed a preliminary injunction request today with a federal court in Oregon seeking emergency measures to protect endangered ...

Like many involved with tribal fisheries and environmental programs in the Pacific Northwest, Jerimiah Bonifer spends his summer days closely watching water conditions. For fish preparing to embark on ...