WILD RIVERS -- Three U.S. senators have rebuked their Montana colleagues by blocking a floor vote on legislation to protect the North Fork Flathead River, the Associated Press reports. Democratic U.S. Sens. Jon Tester and John Walsh of Montana called for the vote this afternoon.…
FISHING -- With an encouraging run of spring chinook forecast for 2014, he Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is taking public comments on proposals for a spring chinook salmon fishery on the Snake River in late April and May. Options have been developed following…
WILDLIFE -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers this spring plans to kill birds at some Snake and Columbia river dams to help protect juvenile salmon and steelhead, the Lewiston Tribune reports. The agency unveiled a plan last week that will allow as many as…
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