Tag: Columbia River Basin
Salmon Return Goals Come Up Short in Columbia River Basin
Officials are still not close to reaching their goal of returning at least 5 million salmon and steelhead to the Columbia River Basin. However,...
Ceremonial Signing Celebrates Historic Columbia River Basin Pact
Delegates representing the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) visited the White House on Feb. 23 for a ceremonial signing of the...
Study: Billions Spent on Hatcheries, Habitat Fail to Help Salmon
By Alex Baumhardt
Decades of data show that despite billions in taxpayer investment, salmon and steelhead hatchery programs and restoration projects in the Columbia River...
Federal Water Managers Begin Spring Spill to Benefit Juvenile Salmon
Federal water managers will begin spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of water over spillways instead of through turbines during annual “spring spill” operations...
John Day Dam Storing Water to Minimize Lower Columbia Flooding
Federal water managers are changing release and storage schedules at several Pacific Northwest dams because of a late season and strong atmospheric river that...
Juan Villalobos Sr. Nov. 24, 1923-May 16, 2013
Juan Vargas Villalobos Sr. died in Hermiston on May 16, 2013, surrounded by his loving and devoted family.
He was born in Fort Hancock, Texas...
