Judge: Salmon Recovery Requires Big Dam Changes on Snake River

For the fifth time, a federal judge has called for an overhaul of Columbia and Snake River dam operations to preserve salmon and steelhead. In his ruling, he urged renewed consideration of Lower Snake River dam removal. A federal judge has called for a new approach to...

Pacific Lamprey Return to White Salmon River

Eel-like fish found in stretch above former dam for first time in more than a century. In this photo taken July 8, 2011, shows a lamprey at Willamette Falls, in Oregon City, Ore. As long as Indians have lived in the Northwest, they have looked to lamprey for food. But...

5 Reasons Dam Removal Still Makes Sense Despite the Drought

By: Chris Clarke When Interior Secretary Donald Hodel suggested in 1987 that California might tear down O’Shaughnessy Dam in Yosemite National Park, few took him seriously. The powers that be in San Fransisco were outraged: the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir supplies...