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.

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.

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. […] ...

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

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 the most southern point of the Snake River, the entire stream squeezes through a 40-foot chute in its canyon near Murtaugh. Ordinarily, the amount of water flowing down the river past Murtaugh ...

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.

On June 12, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum revoking an executive action issued by the prior administration titled “Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and ...

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 ...

Ukrainian troops raise the flag of Ukraine on liberated Snake Island on July 7, 2022. Ukrainian defense ministry photo. Grain ships have begun sailing to Ukrainian ports on the Danube River near ...

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.