You’d be hard-pressed to find a part of the Pacific Northwest that’s more important than the Columbia River basin. Fed by the mighty Columbia and Snake rivers and their many tributaries that ...

the Columbia River Basin was teeming with anadromous salmon and steelhead returning from the ocean annually. Jeremy FiveCrows, communications director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish ...

For tribes in the Columbia River Basin, Pacific Lamprey are a key traditional food. But dams and climate change are ...

But it’s only one small part of the nation’s 15-year effort to restore Pacific lamprey populations to their former abundance in the Columbia River Basin after dams, habitat destruction ...

Why do it? Because the Columbia River Basin doesn’t have the capacity to transmit the oncoming avalanche of electricity demand needed to power data centers and high-tech businesses, while also ...