The Snake and Columbia river system is vital to the Pacific Northwest. It has transformed our region from a barren and dry desert to a vibrant agricultural center; helped build our high-tech and ...

Fifty years ago in June, elected officials gathered in Lewiston to celebrate a remarkable feat: With the completion of the Lower Snake River dams, a $1 billion project had effectively turned the ...

The best chance for Snake River salmon is to unlock high-quality habitat by breaching the dams, connecting them with a free-flowing cold-water river that will help salmon withstand a warming world, ...

Comment: Snake River dams’ benefits replaceable; salmon aren’t. Work to replace the dams’ power, transportation and irrigation must begin now to save salmon and more. Saturday, April 8, 2023 ...

In this 2013 file photo, the Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River is seen from the air near Pasco. Tri-City Herald file Two state representatives recently questioned Rep. Mike Simpson’s “Columbia ...

The Lower Granite Dam is one of the four Snake River dams Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) is proposing to breach in a massive plan that could move the Pacific Northwest into a new sustainable era.

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.

Corps barging in on salmon recovery, ... Juvenile salmon began traveling by barge in the 1980s. ... down the Snake and Columbia rivers, for one to three weeks before they reached the Pacific Ocean.

One Northwest company thinks it may have a better way to help adult salmon make it up and over the Snake River dams. Yes, you read that right – over the roughly 100-foot-tall dams.

U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, kicked off the latest round of debates in 2021, when he released a plan saying it would cost $34 billion to remove and replace the dams' services in order to save ...

To the editor — Can rail save salmon? In a detailed report, Solutionary Rail (SR) identifies upgrades needed for rail transportation in southeastern Washington to replace shipping grain by barge ...

Breaching the dams would be the best way to remove Snake River salmon runs from the Endangered Species List and the best way to maintain treaty and trust obligations with tribes, according to the ...