News Archive

Parties to the long-running salmon versus dams lawsuit on the Snake and Columbia rivers have reached a tentative but still confidential agreement of sorts that could lead to a multi-year timeout in litigation. Read the…

The U.S. government and plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the management of the 4 lower Snake River dams say they have developed a “package of actions and commitments” that they hope to present in court…

Read the full article: Lower Snake River Dam Removal Still Possible As Talks Continue

Northwest River Partners has named Heather Stebbings its interim executive director until a permanent replacement for the departing Kurt Miller is found. Read the full article: Stebbings Named Northwest River Partners Interim Executive Director

Agricultural stakeholders predict federal mediation in a lawsuit over the four lower Snake River dams isn’t likely to lead to a call for breaching them. Read the full article: Ag Stakeholders: Does Biden Salmon Announcement…

President Joe Biden ordered federal agencies on Wednesday to use their power to help imperiled salmon and steelhead trout in the Columbia River and its tributaries, but he stopped far short of tribes’ and environmentalists’…

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a landmark memorandum ordering federal agencies to do their part to restore salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake rivers and honor the U.S. government’s treaty obligations to Northwest…

President Joe Biden signed a memorandum this morning calling for a “sustained national effort” to honor commitments to the Nez Perce and other tribes by restoring Snake and Columbia river salmon and steelhead to healthy…

The Biden administration has pledged over $200 million toward reintroducing salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin in an agreement with tribes that includes a stay on litigation for 20 years. 2009 Map of The…

The Biden administration agreed Thursday to spend more than $200 million to fully fund Native tribes’ plans to reintroduce salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin — more than 80 years after construction of the…

Dam removal remains on the table on the Lower Snake River under an agreement announced Thursday, after 2 years of settlement talks between the federal government and tribes and conservationists. Read the full article: Dam…

Northwest stakeholders say they’ve been shut out of the federal mediation sessions over the Snake River dams.  BPA Snake Dams Fact Sheet 2016 (PDF). Read the full article: Ag Stakeholders Say They’re Shut Out of…