K.C. Mehaffey
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The Six Sovereigns and more than a dozen conservation groups want the Northwest Power and Conservation Council to include an analysis of breaching the four lower Snake River dams in its Ninth Power Plan. The Bonneville Power Administration asked the Council to abandon its long-standing goals to return an average of 5 million adult salmon and steelhead to the Columbia Basin annually and to achieve smolt-to-adult return rates of 2 to 6 percent.
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Canadian officials and educators who spoke at a recent symposium hosted by Stanford University questioned whether progress on a renegotiated Columbia River Treaty can continue under a U.S. president that has imposed crippling tariffs and threatened to take over their country by making it the 51st state. But they also expressed hope that the longstanding relationship of goodwill and cooperation between the two countries will ultimately survive.
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Native American tribes are working to preserve and enhance cold-water refuges in the lower Columbia River that adult salmon and steelhead use as resting spots when they migrate upstream during warm-water conditions.
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2 weeks ago |
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NOAA Fisheries is building an artificial intelligence model to forecast how different levels of flow in the Columbia Basin affect salmon habitat, with help from an award from Microsoft. Researchers at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center will train a new model on high-resolution satellite images that can show salmon managers how high and low flows expand or reduce available habitat along rivers and streams throughout the basin. kAmv2E96C:?8 E92E <:?5 @7 :?7@C>2E:@?
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Environmental groups are criticizing a proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service to rescind the regulatory definition of harm in their interpretation of the Endangered Species Act. But even if the new rule is adopted, it’s unlikely to change protections for ESA-listed salmon in the Columbia Basin or the law’s requirement for federal agencies to prevent hydroelectric operations from jeopardizing their survival.
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