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Hydroelectric dams on Oregon’s Willamette River kill salmon. Congress says it’s time to consider shutting them down
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it could make hydroelectric dams on Oregon’s Willamette River safe for endangered salmon by building gigantic mechanical traps and hauling baby fish ...
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This Oregon biologist had an outsized impact on efforts to save salmon
slaying salmon populations over a vast region of the Northwest. Other early work included “Return to the River,” a 2006 collaboration by multiple scientists that called for rethinking ...
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Oregon, Northern California Coastal Chinook Salmon Move Closer to Endangered Species Protection
In response to a petition by the Native Fish Society, Center for Biological Diversity and Umpqua Watersheds, the National Marine Fisheries Service determined today that the Oregon Coast and ... former ...
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First salmon swims all the way to Oregon after historic California dam removal
The salmon that was documented in Oregon on Wednesday by state wildlife officials there is believed to have continued through the footprints of the former Iron Gate Dam, two other former dams in ...
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Survey Shows Only 17 Wild Spring Chinook Salmon Return to Oregon’s South Umpqua River
PORTLAND, Ore.— The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s recent count of spring-run Chinook salmon returning to the South Umpqua River showed just 17 wild adult fish detected during snorkel ...
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Hewlett helps remove dam, reviving salmon to US Indigenous river after 100 years
The largest dam removal in US history has led to the return and restoration of salmon for the first time in over a century.  ...