While navigation on the Columbia and Snake rivers dates back to the 1800s, prior to establishment ... Before the dams were built, tributaries to the Columbia River ran wild, including the Snake ...

Deep in the bowels of Idaho’s Brownlee Dam, Neal Lincoln is ready to offer a demonstration. Almost 40 feet below the surface of the Snake River ... built their lives around that water, being ...

Salmon enter the Snake River the same as nutrients to a living being: through the mouth ... before the river flushes out the built-up sediment behind the dams and finds a balance between sediment ...

Breaching the Snake River ... and Grand Coulee dams rely on Upper Columbia summer chinook salmon. Salmon haven’t reached the Upper Columbia River since the dams were built.