By the 1940s, about 97% of the river’s original habitat had been lost; now, a section…
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California has approved $44 million for 15 land projects; one will protect 14,177 acres, another buys 1,093 desert acres, while an 80-acre property will become a tribal restoration and training site
Beaver Valley Headwaters Preserve in Siskiyou County, Calif. California’s Wildlife Conservation Board has approved $43.868 million…
In the early 1990s, fewer than 1,000 threatened chum salmon returned to this Washington watershed; recent returns average 32,600 a year as a $9.7 million river restoration nears completion
chum salmon Representative image In the early 1990s, fewer than 1,000 threatened summer-run chum salmon made…
In 2020, engineers pumped 225,000 cubic yards of dredged sediment into the Columbia River; it became four new islands now being studied as salmon habitat
Brian Ekstrom and Lance Downing pulling the beach seine to collect juvenile fish at a restoration…