Posts Tagged ‘Fish passage’
Local Trout Unlimited Chapters To Remove Icicle Creek Boulders To Improve Fish Habitat
The Icicle Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited will likely move some rocks to open up more habitats for steelhead up the Icicle. Rocks that may or may not have had some help from man getting to their current location, as Marcus Bellissimo reports.
Read More2019 Legislature: Reps. Steele, Goehner on I-940, Fish Passage, Capital Budget
12th District State Representatives Mike Steele and Keith Goehner join Dan Langager every Friday on the KOHO Morning Show during the 2019 legislative session in Olympia. Today they talk Initiative 940 and police use of force, as well as billions in fish passage and culvert work by the state, the latest with the Capital budget…
Read MoreFollowing Low Spring Salmon Numbers, Average Summer Migration Underway
Fish – lots and lots of fish – are moving past the windows into the fish ladder at Rocky Reach Visitor Center right now. Thad Mosey, senior fish biologist at Rocky Reach Dam, said this year’s adult salmon – Chinook and sockeye – and steelhead are returning to their home waters to spawn. So far, summer…
Read MorePublic Hearing in Wenatchee to Explore Salmon Passage, Possible Dam Removal
Click here to listen to the full interview. The Bonneville Power Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced hearings and opened a public comment period seeking public input to develop a new plan to save endangered wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Snake Rivers in the Pacific Northwest,…
Read MoreSummer Salmon Runs Begin with Solid PUD Forecast
It’s the time of year when the big fish – salmon and steelhead – start arriving in our stretch of the Columbia River. The summer Chinook season opened last week, but the sockeye season is still in question. Thad Mosey, senior fish biologist with the Chelan PUD at Rocky Reach Dam, talks with Clint about…
Read MoreChelan PUD Promoting Salmon Habitat Conservation
Tribal leaders in Washington state are making a big push for the installation of mechanisms to allow fish passage over Grand Coulee Dam. The large dam closed off salmon and steelhead migration when it was constructed in the late 1930s. Some of the newer dam projects on the Columbia, such as Rocky Reach Dam and…
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