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• Mill Pond Dam scheduled for removal

  March 29, 2012 in Idaho on Page A5 A defunct hydroelectric dam in Pend Oreille County is scheduled for removal, which will eventually return Sullivan Creek to a more natural trout stream. The Washington Department of Ecology has … 1

• Utility agrees to removal of 4 Klamath River dams

  September 30, 2009 in Region In a major boost for dwindling salmon stocks, a utility company has agreed to the removal of four hydroelectric dams that for decades have blocked fish migrations on one of …

• Salmon plan has breach provision

  September 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – In a case closely followed by environmental and business interests, a rewritten plan for restoring endangered and threatened wild salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers in …

• Plan calls for review of dams

  August 4, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott has called for a scientific analysis of the federal government’s Northwest salmon recovery effort, saying that most wild stocks remain at dangerously low levels despite the … 2

• The decade of river revivals

  July 12, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C9 AUGUSTA, Maine — A backhoe took a bite out of the Edwards Dam 10 years ago, releasing the waters of the Kennebec River that had been held back for more …