Around 2.5 million years ago the lake overtopped a drainage divide near present-day Huntington, Oregon, and was captured by the lower Snake River. The lake drained to the north, carving Hells ...

The Columbia River Basin, an area roughly the size of Texas ... concluded that breaching the dams in eastern Washington on the Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia, would be the ...

Dam removal on the Lower Snake River is still on the table as talks continue over salmon survival and the operation of dams in the Columbia Basin. After two years of settlement talks, the federal ...

Major storage reservoirs in the Upper Snake River Basin are currently at roughly 73% of capacity. These figures are from data collected on March 27, 2016. The American Falls Reservoir is currently ...

President Joe Biden’s administration stopped short of calling for the removal of the dams to save the fish, but Northwest tribes and conservationists who have long sought that called the agreement a ...