WACD Reading List

A wider variety of projects can be completed during the winter maintenance season under the district’s stream alteration permit, recently reworked with help from the Idaho Department of Water Resources

The newly signed legislation follows reporting from Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica that underscored the risks and costs associated with a plan to migrate salmon past hydroelectric dams using a giant fish collector and tanker trucks.

There is a new mouth to feed in the coastal waters of the Northwest where juvenile salmon first enter the ocean, and it's a hungry one.

In Oregon, human-made barriers have turned centuries-old migratory routes into life-or-death struggles for fish.

More than 205,000 fish passed through Ice Harbor Dam, but more than half originated in a hatchery. Tribes and environmental groups say breaching the four lower Snake River dams will rescue endangered salmon and steelhead from "quasi-extinction" levels, but agricultural stakeholders worry that dam breaching supporters aren't using sound science to guide decision-making.

The Biden administration has blocked repairs to a second tidegate in Skagit County, Wash., reasoning maintaining the structure will forestall the conversion of farmland into fish habitat. The Army Corps of Engineers notified the National Marine Fisheries Service on Sept. 4 plugging leaks would prolong the tidegate's life and adversely affect Puget Sound salmon and killer whales.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has blocked a drainage district from replacing a failing tidegate that keeps saltwater from flooding about 400 acres of farmland in Skagit County, Wash. NMFS West Coast administrator Jennifer Quan said in a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers repairing the gate would jeopardize the existence of Puget Sound chinook salmon and killer whales, which eat the salmon.

A new report from the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board shows some endangered fish populations in Southwest Washington are recovering while others continue to struggle.

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was in Cle Elum, Wash. to highlight federally funded salmon restoration projects.

A gush of public spending is opening streams to salmon. Four years after lawmakers ordered a strategy, agencies have an algorithm to pick the best projects.

When salmon return from the ocean to the Klamath River after the world's largest dam removal project ends this fall, they will regain access to 400 miles of historical spawning habitat their species has ...

But advocates call new federal guidelines for chemicals used in tires an important step in ending “urban stream syndrome”

More than 1 million young Chinook salmon died following a major mechanical failure at a hatchery in Skagit County.

It would cost the state about $7.5 billion to repair culverts that violate Indigenous fishing rights, but millions from the U.S. government could help.