Dams

Planned repair work on Winchester Dam near Roseburg, Oregon, has led to emergency salvage efforts for Pacific lamprey. It’s just the latest concern from environmentalists who are opposed to the dam on the North Umpqua River.

Several groups say the Snake River dams are making the river too hot for sockeye salmon. Now, they’re planning to sue the federal government.

A large oil leak went undetected for 90 days at a dam on the Lower Snake River.

Breaching the Snake River dams is one major way to protect salmon. That’s according to a federal report on salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin that came out today.

Damming the powerful waters of the Columbia River was a boon for cheap, clean electricity. But the fish that swam those waters are dying out. And the agency in charge isn’t stopping that.

Momentum appears to be building to remove dams along the lower Snake River to save endangered and threatened populations of salmon and steelhead.

Long-deferred maintenance, a changing climate and the construction of homes, businesses and highways below previously remote dams are all contributing to the soaring numbers.

Federal regulators have issued a draft environmental impact statement saying there are significant benefits to a plan to demolish four massive dams on Northern California’s Klamath River to save imperiled migratory salmon.

A federal judge has granted a stay in litigation seeking to save endangered salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers.

Parties in a lawsuit involving dams on the Columbia and Snake river system are asking a federal court for a pause in litigation