May a judge be considered a keystone species? If so, I nominate U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon, who issued an order on Feb. 25 that has far-reaching benefits for our threatened Columbia basin ...

Conservation is a long game; it predates us and will postdate us, writes Jack Easton, a member of the Rivers & Lands ...

U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon in a recent ruling identified a central issue for Northwest salmon recovery and hydropower when he noted federal agencies display a “disappointing history of ...

In a stunning reversal, Seattle City Light has agreed to invest $979 million to build fish passage at its three Skagit River ...

Citing a sharply lower wild salmon forecast in Prince William Sound, Silver Bay Seafoods announced it will not process fish at its Cordova plant during the 2026 season — a ...

Nearly 70,000 salmon returned to the Klamath River and its tributaries, according to a recently released Review of 2026 Ocean ...

Conservation crews have helped plant and seed thousands of native trees and other vegetation. Salmon have responded in kind.

Castle is one of the main characters in Children of the Setting Sun’s new documentary film “The River Remembers,” tracing the ...

A federal judge in Oregon ruled late Wednesday that dams have to allow more water to pass through to save the salmon ...

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the ...

After an unprecedented three-year shutdown of California’s commercial salmon fishery, Chinook salmon runs are beginning to ...

The Oregon commercial fishing industry’s economic impacts were an all-time high in Year 2025, according to a Corvallis-based economic research group, though tough times often are never far away.