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The Columbia River is critical for fish, energy, commerce and identity. But it faces an uncertain future. How much more can ...
You’d be hard-pressed to find a part of the Pacific Northwest that’s more important than the Columbia River basin. Fed by the mighty Columbia and Snake rivers and their many tributaries that ...
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The Columbia River is at a crossroads. Negotiations between the U.S. and Canada over the river's benefits ...
The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs flood control, water supply and hydropower in the shared Columbia River Basin as President Donald Trump ...
VANCOUVER, Wash. —The Trump administration has cut tens of millions of dollars from a key Columbia Basin salmon-restoration ...
Looking at a simple map of the river's course, it looks like someone ... the Athabasca Glacier at its eastern base. "Canada's Columbia Basin contributes some 30% to 40% of the Columbia River's ...
the Columbia River Basin was teeming with anadromous salmon and steelhead returning from the ocean annually. Jeremy FiveCrows ...
A map showing the extent of the Columbia River basin highlighting the dams in the treaty.
Officials are still not close to reaching their goal of returning at least 5 million salmon and steelhead to the Columbia River Basin. However, new data shows a positive trend in total abundance ...
Tribal nations helped draw up a road map for the future of the region ... At no point since the beginning of Columbia River Basin development have Tribal fishers been able to harvest more ...
A map of all Columbia River Basin dams. Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers / Oregon Capital Chronicle Those interim agreements are non-negotiable, according to John Wagner, an ...