Wahkiakum and Pacific counties are considering starting a land trust that would use grants to buy thousands of acres of forest about 20 miles west…
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Columbia River Gorge hatcheries suffer amid job losses, but volunteers stepping up
By The Citizen on September 15, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michael Tehan had dedicated his 43-year career in the federal government to preserving salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest. But soon…
After six years, 32,000 boulders and $172M, the Columbia River jetty rehab is almost done
By The Citizen on July 3, 2025
CLATSOP SPIT — For most of the past two years, Jesse Allen has worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week operating a crane…
Mussels, lamprey and even turtles moved to make way for Lewis River restoration
By The Citizen on June 25, 2025
BATTLE GROUND — May and June’s long stretch of dry weather has one upside: The lack of rain put the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership’s major…
Stopgap Columbia River Treaty update leaves U.S. flush with electricity, in trickier flood management position
By The Citizen on December 14, 2024
A stopgap update to the 60-year-old Columbia River Treaty between the U.S. and Canada upends flood control and hydropower across the river basin. Read more… …
Salmon lawsuit ends in settlement but tensions over hatcheries simmer
By The Citizen on October 1, 2024
The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife is closing two Southwest Washington hatchery programs and lowering releases at another as a part of a settlement…