Kendra Chamberlain

3 weeks ago | columbiainsight.org | Kendra Chamberlain

By Kendra Chamberlain. June 4, 2025. A quiet proposal to drastically restructure the nation’s wildland firefighting capabilities is gaining steam, and that has wildland firefighting experts in the Pacific Northwest concerned. A scrappy wildland firefighter nonprofit based in Eugene, Ore., is raising alarm over a Trump administration directive to consolidate federal wildland firefighting into a single super-agency.

1 month ago | columbiainsight.org | Kendra Chamberlain

By Kendra Chamberlain. May 7, 2025. Two federal agencies have decided to push back a public comment period on an issue related to the breaching four Lower Snake River dams. The move has sparked concerns that the Trump administration may be working to undo—or at least bury—the historic settlement agreement between a group of Pacific Northwest Tribes and the federal government to restore salmon populations that have been harmed by dam operations in the Columbia River Basin.

1 month ago | salemreporter.com | Kendra Chamberlain

This article was originally published by Columbia Insight, a nonprofit newsroom in Hood River focused on environmental issues of the Columbia River Basin and the Pacific Northwest. Each year, hundreds of bird species take flight through the Pacific Flyway. Stretching from northern Alaska to Patagonia, it’s one of the main migration routes for waterfowl and other bird species in the western Americas.

1 month ago | columbiainsight.org | Kendra Chamberlain

By Kendra Chamberlain. May 7, 2025. Two federal agencies have decided to push back a public comment period on an issue related to the breaching four Lower Snake River dams. The move has sparked concerns that the Trump administration may be working to undo—or at least bury—the historic settlement agreement between a group of Pacific Northwest Tribes and the federal government to restore salmon populations that have been harmed by dam operations in the Columbia River Basin.

2 months ago | columbiainsight.org | Kendra Chamberlain

By Kendra Chamberlain, April 28, 2025. The Clearwater River Basin, dubbed a Noah’s Ark for chinook salmon, steelhead and native trout by the conservation group American Rivers, has been added to group’s annual list if Most Endangered Rivers. The move comes after a controversial U.S. Forest Service land management plan stripped protections for 700 miles of river corridors in north-central Idaho’s Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest.