Upper Willamette News Today

Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved fitness.

Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved fitness.

Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved fitness.

Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved fitness.

Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved fitness.

The Bureau of Land Management has withdrawn a controversial timber project near Eugene after three environmental groups filed a lawsuit last November.

Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved fitness.

Coho salmon numbers have exploded in the Upper Willamette Basin to the delight of anglers and confusion of biologists.

In this episode, host Zach Urness looks at a billion-dollar plan to save endangered spring chinook in the upper Willamette Basin.

The move will mean historically low water levels and limited recreation at reservoirs outside Eugene and Albany.