By Linwood Laughy. Wheat comprises about 90% of all Lower Snake River barge freight. Breaching the four Lower Snake River dams would eliminate barging on this inland waterway.

For three decades, politics in the 5th Congressional District have been shaped by the many “what if” questions about removing ...

The leader of a top international grain supplier gives “low odds” that the lower Snake River dams will ever be breached and predicts that “cooler heads” will continue to prevail. […] ...

Environmental activists push for the removal of four dams along the Snake River in Washington state, but it would change the look of grain exports in the Pacific Northwest.

Snake River salmon. Tribes and many environmental groups want the dams torn down or breached after 13 species of salmon and steelhead have been listed as threatened or endangered in the Columbia ...

At a congressional hearing in Richland, Washington, designed to defend the four Lower Snake River dams against calls for removal, a panel of nine people testified about the economic, agricultural ...

Dams on the Snake River were built to generate power, Store water control flooding and transport grain. By blocking the flow of the river, they have had many unintended consequences.

Now isn’t the right time to breach the four Lower Snake River dams, according to a recommendation from U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. The two Democrats announced their ...

If the four Snake River dams were ultimately removed, it would be the largest such project in U.S. history. In 2012 the Elwha Dam on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula was removed to restore habitat.

Quagga mussel larvae was first detected in the Snake River near Twin Falls on Sept.18, 2023, by routine monitoring conducted by the ISDA. ... Idaho Grain Producers Association ...