Seattle City Light has proposed an agreement to continue to use hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River to power the city’s electricity for up to the next 50 years. But the full ...

For years, Seattle City Light insisted its hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River were not harming salmon.

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I’ve been reading rivers my whole adult life and have spent 22 years guiding around the west, mostly in Idaho on the Salmon River. The way water moves around a boulder, the way a current bends through ...

Last week, after an Oregon judge directed federal agencies to “spill” more water through Columbia and Snake river dams, ...

"The Columbia River system already operates under some of the most protective fish measures in the nation ...," said Public ...

The judge finds that the Trump administration’s plans for the massive structures would harm salmon runs that are “disappearing from the landscape.” ...

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission may not have authority over Consumers Energy’s plan to sell 13 dams, but it wants to have a voice.

COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE (KATU) — It’s a “Lampreypalooza” in the Columbia River Gorge. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission hosted a free, family-oriented ...

(THE MAINE MONITOR) - Federal regulators issued guidance last month suggesting that four lower Kennebec River dams can continue operating if their owner makes slight modifications to allow endangered ...

Sanford Lake will soon be refilling, and biologists say fish that have remained in the river and channels there are poised to produce countless young to repopulate the once burgeoning fisheries.