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  1. The Hot Water Report provides real-time data in the lower Snake and Columbia river reservoirs and details the collective impacts of hot, stagnant, and toxic waters on already-imperiled salmon and steelhead.
    #Salmon #ColumbiaRiver #SnakeRiver
    youtu.be/NNStYq5KulM?...

    Hot Water Report 2026: Warming...

  2. The Hot Water Report provides real-time data in the lower Snake and Columbia river reservoirs and details the collective impacts of hot, stagnant, and toxic waters on already-imperiled salmon and steelhead.
    #Salmon #ColumbiaRiver #SnakeRiver
    youtu.be/NNStYq5KulM?is=CfyuhQ

  3. Make Waves: The Story Behind My Sockeye Salmon Painting and the Species It Champions

    Conservation:

    In Idaho, thousands of sockeye once swam up the Columbia, Snake, and Salmon rivers — migrating more than 900 miles from the Pacific Ocean to Redfish Lake every year. Between 1991 and 1998, only 16 sockeye returned to Redfish Lake. (NOAA Fisheries) In 1991, the Snake River sockeye became the first salmon in the Pacific Northwest declared endangered under the ESA. Within a few years, 16 more species were listed as either threatened or endangered. By 1999, wild salmon had disappeared from about 40% of their historic breeding ranges in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California. (RCO)The Pacific Salmon Foundation’s most recent State of Salmon report confirms the pattern holds: with two-thirds of salmon populations below their long-term averages, the data underscores persistent declines over many decades. “Recent gains for some salmon species show that salmon can rebound when conditions are right,” the report notes, but “a few good runs in recent years don’t outweigh decades of decline.” (Pacific Salmon Foundation)

    The central battleground is the four lower Snake River dams. In 2022, NOAA published a landmark report concluding that removing the four lower Snake River dams as soon as possible is “essential” to avoiding extinction. In December 2023, the Biden Administration announced a historic agreement with six sovereign nations — Washington, Oregon, the Nez Perce Tribe, and other Columbia Basin Treaty Tribes — committing to advance salmon recovery and pause Snake River litigation. (Conservationalliance)That agreement is now in jeopardy. In June 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum directing federal agencies to withdraw from the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement. The White House also revoked a Biden-era memorandum supporting native fish restoration across the basin. Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups represented by Earthjustice subsequently filed a motion in response to the withdrawal. (Earthjustice) What conservation hatcheries can and can’t do

    The captive broodstock program helped save the Redfish Lake sockeye by protecting remaining genetic diversity in conservation hatcheries — and by 2000, 252 adults made it back. But NOAA acknowledges that over dependence on hatcheries could undermine the population’s genetic heritage and fitness. (NOAA Fisheries)Without removing the lower Snake dams, hatchery efforts and tributary restoration work risk being futile — spending enormous sums on actions whose benefits are negated by the gauntlet of dams and reservoirs the fish must survive.

    After salmon spawn and die, their carcasses are a valuable source of energy and nutrients to the entire river ecosystem — contributing nitrogen and phosphorous that improve the growth and survival of the next generation of salmon. (NOAA Fisheries) The forest, the river, the next run — all of it depends on the body of the one that came before.

    Government / Science

    NOAA — Sockeye Salmon (Protected)

    NOAA — Conservation Management

    NOAA — Lake Ozette Sockeye

    NOAA — Saving Pacific Salmon & Steelhead

    Advocacy

    Save Our Wild Salmon

    Earthjustice — Snake River Timeline

    The Conservation Alliance — Dam Removal

    Wild Steelheaders United

    Idaho Rivers United

    Rogue Riverkeeper

    Data / Reports

    Pacific Salmon Foundation — State of Salmon 2025

    WA Recreation & Conservation — Salmon Problems

    Take Action

    American Rivers

    Trout Unlimited

    #AbstractRealism #art #artist #ConservationArt #expressionism #painting #snakeriver
  4. Conservation groups threaten lawsuit against Burley, Rexburg over wastewater violations

    BURLEY, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — The Idaho Conservation League and Snake River Waterkeeper have formally notified the cities of…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #BURLEY #conservation #idaho #pollution #REXBURG #Science #SnakeRiver #SOUTHFORKTETONRIVERS #WASTEWATERPLANT
    newsbeep.com/us/481629/

  5. HT @MusiqueNow

    Trump Cancels Deal With Tribes to Restore #ColumbiaRiverSalmon

    "Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

    "The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.

    "It was a remarkable step following repeated failures by the government to uphold the tribal fishing rights it swore in treaties to preserve.

    "The agreement is now just another of those #BrokenPromises.

    "President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday pulling the federal government out of the deal. Trump’s decision halted a government-wide initiative to restore abundant salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake rivers and signaled an end to the government’s willingness to consider removing dams that blocked their free flow."

    propublica.org/article/trump-s.

    #FirstNations #IndigenousNews #salmon #USPol #ColumbiaRiver #TrumpSucks #BrokenTreaties #CorporateColonialism #SnakeRiver #WaterIsLife

  6. “The Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative is the result of a historic, unified partnershipwith sovereign Tribal nations and the states of Oregon and Washington – and I am committed to full implementation of our agreement over the next decade,”

    koin.com/news/environment/oreg
    #ColumbiaRiver #SnakeRiver #SalmonNation SovereignNations

  7. NW states, tribes reach historic deal with feds over Columbia River Basin fish and dams invw.org/2023/12/26/nw-states- #USpol #Restoration

    "A decades-long battle over #dams in the #ColumbiaRiver Basin had a breakthrough... #Biden announced a deal with 4 #tribes & #Oregon, #Washington that is meant to restore #salmon and other #fish runs... the agreement explicitly calls for lower #SnakeRiver dams to be replaced, breached within 2 fish generations, or about 8 years, to rebuild salmon populations"

  8. #Biden Takes Steps Toward Breaching Four #SnakeRiver Dams outdoorlife.com/conservation/s #USpol

    "In an agreement with the States of #Oregon and #Washington and four Indian #Tribes, the administration announced its support for the #ColumbiaBasin #Restoration Initiative, which provides a foundation for recovering #salmon, steelhead, and other wild #fish populations in the #Northwest."

  9. Back in September of last year I did a week-and-a-half long camping trip; the longest I've ever done.  I visited three national parks: Glacier, Grand Teton, and Yellowstone, camping in the first two, and spending a (sadly, single) day in the third.

    I'm slowly working my way through the photos I took on that trip, but wanted this to be the first I posted.

    Ansel Adams is, as he has been for many of us, an inspiration, and the place where he took his famous The Tetons and the Snake River photo is now an overlook.  It felt akin to holy ground, to stand in that spot, and see with my own eyes a scene that's been etched into my memory by his work.

    I took my own shot there, as again I'm sure many of us who visit the spot have.  It felt like honoring him, and his inspiration.

    Take with a Nikon Z7 II and Nikon Z 24-70mm f2.8 S

    #Photography #BlackAndWhite #GrandTetonNationalPark #Nikon #NikonZ7II #SnakeRiver #Mountains

  10. In a Major Shift, #Northwest Tribes — not U.S. Officials — Will Control #Salmon Recovery Funds
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    In a new legal agreement, the #Biden administration gave authority over salmon recovery funds to Northwest #tribes.

    It’s a major shift after decades of control by federal power generating officials.

    #News #Washington #PNW #SnakeRiver #Oregon #Fishing

    propublica.org/article/northwe

  11. YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1848:
    "Strong head wind, so that we could not start until noon. Got about 3 miles above the Nez Perces Forks. #SnakeRiver
    "3rd. Fine weather, and the wind has fallen. Breakfasted at the mouth of the Yackima River and encamped near the commencement of the Grande Ecores [HanfordReach]
    4th. Fine weather, and calm. All the passengers got ashore today and rode along in company with the boats. Made a good day's work, considering... #WAHistory #AmWritingHistory #Books

  12. TETON SNAKE RIVER OVERLOOK:
    fineartamerica.com/featured/sn

    Snake River overlook, made famous by Ansel Adams, Teton Mountains in , river flowing through photo. layered teraced flatlands adoining the river in autumn. Lite pastel colors of yellows and light greens.

    #snakeriver #mountains #tetons #jacksonwyoming #AYearForArt #artforsale #Travel #travelphotography #giftideas #nature #BuyIntoArt #springforart #art #normabrandsberg #elegantfinephotography #wyoming