Henry Brannan

1 week ago | thenewstribune.com | Henry Brannan

THE DALLES, Ore. - Thomas Ogren stood on the dock at The Dalles Marina boat launch Monday, casting for Northern pikeminnow in the hopes of hooking a piece of the roughly $1 million anglers are paid each year for pulling the fish from the Columbia-Snake rivers system. "What are you fishing for?" Ogren, 78, hollered to a passing boat. "Same thing as you - money, money, money!" responded Wally Cole, 76. The men - Cole from Camas and Ogren from San Luis Obisbo, Calif.

1 week ago | columbian.com | Henry Brannan

THE DALLES, ORE. — Thomas Ogren stood on the dock at The Dalles Marina boat launch Monday, casting for Northern pikeminnow in the hopes of hooking a piece of the roughly $1 million anglers are paid each year for pulling the fish from the Columbia-Snake rivers system. “What are you fishing for?” Ogren, 78, hollered to a passing boat. “Same thing as you — money, money, money!” responded Wally Cole, 76. The men — Cole from Camas and Ogren from San Luis Obisbo, Calif.

1 week ago | cascadepbs.org | Henry Brannan

Spill, which is now happening at each federal dam along the Columbia-Snake river system that has fish passage, allows out-migrating salmon to dodge the dams’ , . But this year, in addition to battling hundreds of miles of near-still water, predators and a warming ocean, the roughly 6.6 million roughly pinky-finger-sized young fish also face a Trump administration that has attacked the notion of using the West’s rivers for anything but pure and immediate commercial gain.

1 week ago | tdn.com | Henry Brannan

At 12 a.m. yesterday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened Bonneville Dam’s spillway gates, marking the beginning of seasonal water releases known as “spill.”By 11:59 p.m., nearly 13 billion gallons of water were set to have barreled over the top of the last man-made obstacle young salmon face on their journey from their home streams across the West and into the Pacific Ocean.

2 weeks ago | columbian.com | Henry Brannan

At 12 this morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened Bonneville Dam’s spillway gates, marking the beginning of seasonal water releases known as “spill.”By 11:59 tonight, nearly 13 billion gallons of water will have barreled over the top of the last man-made obstacle young salmon face on their journey from their home streams across the West and into the Pacific Ocean.