Back in 2014, we heard about a so-called "fish gun" or "salmon cannon" that safely shot spawning fish up over river-blocking obstacles such as dams. Its successor has since entered use ...

The rules for salmon fishing this summer and fall at various points of the Pacific Ocean and Columbia River are complicated, ...

Here’s why the only way to recover Columbia River salmon is to remove the four federal dams on the lower Snake River and why you should care. The Columbia River, fed by tributaries starting from ...

When the last of the four dams on the Klamath River was removed in late 2024, members of the Karuk and Yurok tribes hoped that the salmon that used to populate the Klamath would “remember the ...

The nation’s new energy secretary is “passionately in support” of leaving the four lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington intact, he said at a hearing last week in Washington, D.C. Rep.

[Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images] The dams were built between 1918 and 1962 to provide hydropower, and immediately blocked salmon from migrating. Over time ...

The salmon cannon is an ingenious device that routes salmon around dams that would otherwise prevent them from reaching their spawning grounds. It's really just a tube, but cannon sounds so much ...

When it comes to Idaho’s migrating salmon and steelhead, we can get a quick idea of the health of the populations by counting the number of fish passing dams on their migration. Like a pulse ...

“Dams are driving salmon to extinction in the Willamette Valley,” Kathleen George, tribal councilwoman for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, previously told the Statesman Journal.

A truly inspiring article published on May 7 in The Oregonian offers hope for the eventual recovery of wild salmon in west coast rivers. When the last of the four dams on the Klamath River was ...

Environmental groups urged a judge to order immediate changes to the government’s operation of a series of dams in the upper Willamette River basin, saying steelhead and Chinook salmon are too ...