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  Out & About

  January 17, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C14 BASS drops women’s contests OUTCAST – The Women’s Bassmaster Tour for professional tournament fishing has been dropped for 2010, the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society announced last week.

• Columbia River salmon judge presses for resolution

  November 23, 2009 in Outdoors, Region A federal judge in Portland says he wants an end soon to 15 years of litigation over imperiled salmon and dams in the Columbia River system.

• 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 …

• Salmon plan boosts protection, administration says

  September 15, 2009 in City, Region The Obama administration says it will be more aggressive in protecting declining Pacific Northwest salmon runs and will study breaching some dams as a last resort in a long-awaited management …

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  Out & About

  August 23, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C10 Even ‘play dams’ are bad for fish OUTLAW – Rock dams built by kids and campers to create swimming areas in streams can be a death trap to migrating fish.

• Sockeye reach Stanley Basin

  August 16, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C9 The first two sockeye salmon of the season completed the marathon journey from the Pacific Ocean, up the Columbia and Snake rivers to Little Redfish Lake in Idaho’s Stanley Basin …

• NOAA granted another month for salmon plan

  August 10, 2009 in Region PORTLAND — A federal judge Monday gave the Obama administration another month before saying where it stands on the Bush administration’s strategy for balancing endangered salmon against federal hydroelectric power …

• 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

• Hydropower conference set for Spokane next week

  July 25, 2009 in Business on Page A8 About 1,500 employees of the hydropower industry will gather in Spokane next week for a conference discussing new technology and the impact of climate change on dams. The Waterpower XVI …

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  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 …

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  Power play: Avista dams relicensed

  June 19, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Five hydropower dams on the Spokane River are entering a new era. Avista Corp. received a new federal license for the dams Thursday that spells out how they will operate …

• Avista issued new hydropower license

  June 18, 2009 in City, Idaho Avista Corp. has received a new 50-year license for five hydropower dams on the Spokane River. 2

• Feds fact-finding on dams and salmon

  May 27, 2009 in City on Page A6 GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Two top members of President Barack Obama’s environmental team are in the Northwest this week, listening but pointedly not speaking about the tense conflict between salmon …

• River treaty changes floated

  March 28, 2009 in News The buzz of an electric alarm clock, the sweet heat of the shower, steam rising from a coffee mug. All over the Northwest, people start their day with energy from …

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  Salmon run project begins

  March 8, 2009 in City on Page B2 PORT ANGELES, Wash. – Scientists know what two dams did nearly a century ago to the Elwha River’s legendary salmon runs. Now they get a historic chance to find out …

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  Hatchery program replenishing stocks

  July 23, 2008 in Idaho on Page A1 A feast of grilled salmon is an exceptional way to end a day spent kayaking on the Spokane River. For the Spokane Tribe of Indians, it’s also a link to …

• Avista’s river-use conditions challenged

  July 9, 2008 in Idaho on Page B3 Avista Corp. should do more to protect the Spokane River in return for harnessing its water for hydropower generation, two environmental groups say. The Sierra Club and the Center for …