Contractors for Idaho Falls Power will begin fish sampling on the Snake River. Sampling efforts, which will start July 21, ...

Less than a month after President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum revoking a Biden-era agreement regarding the ...

The Ice Harbor Dam in southeastern Washington state is one of the four dams on the lower Snake River which would need to be removed to save endangered and threatened steelhead and salmon ...

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The spillway at Lower Monumental Dam in Washington on the Snake River. The vast majority of salmon are getting up, over, around and through the four lower Snake River dams even as legal challenges ...

Federal agencies have finalized a plan that will keep the Snake River Dams in place. It allows for more springtime spill over dams to help juvenile salmon migrating out to the Pacific Ocean.

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.

The Lower Snake River dams support around 47,000 acres of irrigated farmland. Ice Harbor dam, closest to the Tri-Cities, provides the most irrigation for agricultural land and for groundwater users.

News; Pacific NW; Feds consider removing Snake River dams in leaked agreement with plaintiffs in lawsuit Sun., Dec. 3, 2023 Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River west of Clarkston is shown here in ...

The dams support 2.6 million recreational visits annually, and the cruise industry along the Snake River had an economic impact of around $4 million in 2019, according to the report.

“The Lower Snake River dams are an easy target, but they are not the problem,” McMorris Rodgers said. Related: How a federal agency is contributing to salmon's decline in the Northwest.