Record Sockeye Salmon Run on Columbia Now Threatened by Hot Water (Seattle Times, July 2024)
“Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River, in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over. But a punishing heat wave has made river temperatures so hot many may never make it their last miles home.”
How The Nez Perce Are Using An Energy Transition To Save Salmon (High Country News, July 2024)
“The Tribe is working to replace the generating capacity of the Lower Snake River dams with solar power.”
Hot Water Report 2024, Issue 1 (Save Our Wild Salmon, July 2024)
“Welcome to the Hot Water Report: Warming Waters in the Lower Snake and Columbia Rivers.”
American Rivers names the Snake as #2 on the Most Endangered Rivers® List of 2022 (IdahoRivers.org, April 2022)
“American Rivers lists the four federal dams on the Lower Snake River which are Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, Lower Granite as the major threat, putting it high on the list. Tribal Treaty rights and culture, rural communities, and local economies are at risk of losing some of the most historically prolific salmon and steelhead runs in the Columbia River Basin.”
What Does Quasi Extinction Actually Mean? (Columbia Insight, Dec. 2021)
“If the current rate of decline continues, by 2025 77% of those chinook populations will meet the quasi-extinction threshold.”
The Fight to Save the Salmon (Time Magazine, Oct. 2021)
“But every year, that way of life, like the salmon it is built around, looks increasingly threatened.”