snake river

The Washington Department of Ecology has fined a Vancouver barge company $18,000 for spilling 40,000 gallons of fertilizer in the Columbia and Snake rivers in April.  The Columbian reports that state investigators found two of Tidewater Barge Lines Inc.'s s...

Washington’s Governor has comes out in opposition to a bill in Congress that would reduce spill over Columbia and Snake river dams, and prevent the breaching of four Snake River dams.  Jay Inslee said in a letter to House leaders, the legislation would harm ongoing efforts to improve salmon and dam management.  Inslee i...

A review by the Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association said there could be fewer salmon returning this year and next year due to poor decisions made by fish managers.   Darryll Olsen with CSRIA said, “It appears to us that there is such a bias on the part of some of the fish managers, particularly the state-related fish managers, that they want to keep the fish in river no matter what even wh