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… …
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The Columbia River feeds Washington’s booming apple industry — and its economy
By The Citizen on November 16, 2024
WAPATO — Tim Calhoun operates a small orchard and fruit distribution business about 2 miles off the Yakima River. Walking through rows of apple trees…
“A lot of fun”: Yakama Nation biologists partner with college students to pull lamprey from drying canal’s mud
By The Citizen on October 31, 2024
UNION GAP — About a dozen Heritage University students joined biologists from the Yakama Nation’s Pacific Lamprey Project last week to save more than 1,000…
Does Trump plan to send Columbia River water to California? It’s unclear
By The Citizen on October 29, 2024
About a dozen media outlets around the U.S. and Canada reported in recent weeks that former President Donald Trump seemed to propose diverting the Columbia…
Can Pacific lamprey numbers be restored in the Columbia River Basin? Yakama Nation biologists think so
By The Citizen on October 19, 2024
WOODLAND — Biologist Dave’y Lumley paced the shallow water at the mouth of the Lewis River on an overcast morning late last month. With each…
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…
Pacific lamprey returns to the Columbia River plummet but Northwest tribes are working to fix those runs
By The Citizen on September 24, 2024
This year’s Pacific lamprey return in the Columbia River is nearly 30 percent lower than the average run in the past 10 years, according to…
Kalama hotel to be demolished this fall; port plans development to build out downtown business district
By The Citizen on September 23, 2024
Once home to Elvis for just one night, a Kalama motel is now slated to be demolished after falling into disrepair more recently. Read more… …
Drax fined for starting on Longview biomass fuel plant without proper permits
By The Citizen on September 20, 2024
Global energy giant Drax Group was fined $34,000 in June for starting construction on a $250 million biomass fuel plant in Longview before securing the…
Annual Columbia River Cross-Channel Swim equal parts challenge and tradition for swimmers
By The Citizen on September 7, 2024
CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — Early Labor Day morning, Lynn Rasmussen and her group — The Faux Fur-sters — shed their warm, namesake coats to reveal…