Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Field reports: Public meeting set on fishing proposal

  October 23, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 FISHING – The Washington Fish and Wildlife Department is taking comment on proposed changes to sportfishing rules. A public meeting has been set for agency staff to discuss proposals 6-8 …

• Federal judge rejects latest salmon protection plan

  August 3, 2011 in City on Page A5 A federal judge in Oregon ruled Tuesday the Obama administration’s attempt to make federal hydroelectric dams in the Northwest safer for protected salmon once again violates the Endangered Species Act. … 1

• Field reports: Local geese herded for population study

  June 19, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C9 WILDLIFE – Biologists and volunteers herd Canada geese into pens and clamped leg bands on about 1,000 young birds in Eastern Washington in the past week for a Washington Fish …

• Dam in southwest Washington slated for removal

  June 14, 2011 in News, Outdoors, Region Nearly a century after it was built, the Condit Dam on the White Salmon River is about to be removed, reopening the Columbia River tributary for the passage of salmon … 8

• Lawyers argue salmon numbers

  May 10, 2011 in City on Page A6 PORTLAND – In what is likely the final major hearing before a federal judge decides what must be done to make Columbia River dams safe for salmon, lawyers argued Monday … 1

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  Condit Dam removal will free White Salmon rapids for rafters

  May 1, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C10 Condit Dam towered over Mark Zoller, his crew of three, and the rafts they’d just wrestled down a catwalk and a cliff to reach the White Salmon River near Underwood, …

• Runoff prompts Avista to open Post Falls gates

  January 19, 2011 in City, Idaho The huge runoff from recent thaw has prompted Avista Utilities to open all of its spill gates at Post Falls Dam, the utility said today.

• Columbia, Snake locks will close for repairs

  September 8, 2010 in Business on Page A8 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start shutting down all eight locks on the Columbia and Snake rivers in December for repair work, with the last scheduled to reopen …

• Suit seeks more water for salmon

  June 4, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A8 Conservation and fishermen’s groups are suing the Washington State Department of Ecology to allow more water over dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers to protect salmon and steelhead.

• Clark Fork fisheries still recovering

  April 18, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C9 MISSOULA – The federal government has hauled away 2.2 million cubic yards of toxic sediment and removed a reservoir as part of a Superfund site cleanup in southwestern Montana’s fishing …

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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 …