Fact Sheets and Reports

NWRP Fast Facts Pocket Guide

     

Each link below takes you to various white papers, backgrounders and reports on the listed subject:

History of Hydro and Salmon
Learn more about the Columbia and Snake river systems, hydroelectric power, dams and salmon.

Value of Hydro
The hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake river systems are the engines that fuel the economy of the Northwest. 

Fish and Wildlife Costs
Electric customers in the Northwest have invested billions of dollars into new technologies, safer passage, hatcheries and habitat improvements for salmon that travel the rivers.

Salmon Runs and Returns
Salmon spend most of their lives in the ocean, returning to spawn in the rivers of their birth and creating the next generation of salmon. Ocean conditions, harvest, habitat, hydro and hatcheries all affect salmon survival.

Salmon Plans and Protection
How to operate dams while protecting salmon is an issue that has been under the scrutiny of Judge Redden's court for several years. The current Biological Opinion/Salmon Plan is in Judge Michael Simon's court.