Tell Me Something Good: Salmon Spawning for the First Time in 80 Years in the Upper Columbia River
Parksville, BC, Canada / The Lounge 99.9 Jan 22, 2021 10:39 AM Tribal biologists have confirmed that chinook and steelhead salmon are spawning in the upper-Columbia River system in Washington state for the first time in 80 years. The discovery of 36 “redds” (where a female salmon deposits her eggs) along a prime eight-mile spawning stretch of a tributary of the Columbia called the Sanpoil River confirmed the Colville Tribe’s suspicions. It’s the culmination of decades of dreaming, and years of work, which one can hear in the words of Crystal Conant, a Colville tribal member of the Arr...
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