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Lower Snake River dam-breaching proposal a ‘nonstarter’ for more than a dozen regional environmental groups By Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review Published: March 17, 2021, 1:31pm Share: FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file photo, the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River is seen from the air near Colfax, Wash. A Republican congressman has proposed removing four hydroelectric dams in the Northwest, including the Lower Granite Dam, as part of a sweeping plan to save salmon populations and provide aid to farmers and others. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) SPOKANE — More t...

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to correct Carrie Herrman’s name. Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson created a proposal to demolish the Snake River dams to restore the salmon and steelhead populations. Two years ago, only 14 wild Sockeye salmon were reported to have made it to the Stanley Basin in Idaho, said Carrie Herrman, outreach coordinator for Save Our Wild Salmon. “Before any dams were here in the Pacific Northwest, there were hundreds of thousands [of salmon that made it through],” she said.  Since the dams were built in the late 1950s, the salmon population has decr...

Report: Salmon in WA are ‘teetering on the brink of extinction’ The Northwest’s iconic fish are in crisis due to warming waters and habitat degradation, the recent report shows. by Northwest Public Broadcasting / January 20, 2021 In this March 9, 2017, photo, a fish biologist holds a juvenile coho salmon at the Lostine River in northeastern Oregon. The Northwest’s salmon are “teetering on the brink of extinction,” according to a new report. (Gillian Flaccus/AP) Washington’s salmon are “teetering on the brink of extinction,” according to a n...

Sockeye salmon like these are among the salmon species in peril, as outlined in the 2021 State of Salmon in Watersheds report. CREDIT: Aaron Kunz Listen