Getting salmon and steelhead over Grand Coulee Dam could someday bring back a recreational fishery to the Spokane River, local tribes say.

1 of 2 New, tiny batteries, designed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will allow researchers to better study young sockeye salmon above Grand Coulee Dam, part of reintroduction efforts ...

Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams don't have fish ladders, which let migrating fish bypass some dams lower on the Columbia.

Salmon migration ends at the Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams because Grand Coulee, about 350 feet tall from the downriver to upriver side, is too tall for a fish ladder.

Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams on the Columbia River are the top two power-producing dams in the United States, and along with nearby Rocky Reach Dam make a fine loop tour for fans of ...

The Spokane Tribe of Indians has received $200,000 to study whether salmon would thrive above Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams.

The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, constructed between 1931 and 1936, was slightly taller, but Grand Coulee was more than four times as long.

Completed in 1941, Grand Coulee Dam serves as a multipurpose facility, providing water for irrigation, hydroelectric power production, flood control, fish and wildlife conservation, and recreation.

The dam will raise the waters of the Columbia so that they can be pumped into the reservoir of the Grand Coulee and will then flow over the parcned acres of the Columbia Basin.

Restoration above Grand Coulee is about more than the tribes’ own fishing. The coldwater rivers and streams above the dam are thought to offer a bastion for the fish as the climate turns warmer.

The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, constructed between 1931 and 1936, was slightly taller, but Grand Coulee was more than four times as long.

ON March 22 the official opening took place of the great hydro-electric and irrigation scheme on the Columbia River, Washington, across which the Grand Coulee Dam has been erected. The River ...