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The next big phase of the Klamath River Dam removal started this week. It's the largest dam removal in U.S. history and is expected to last through 2024.
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Several conservation and fishing groups say the Snake River dams are making the river too hot for sockeye salmon. Now, they’re planning to sue the federal government to remove the dams. But dam advocates say the move will make climate change – and hot waters – worse.
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After nearly five decades of advocacy four dams are about to be demolished to help salmon, but they’re not the dams we’re usually talking about.
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Just over a year after President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act into law, a flood of money is already being put to work to restore aquatic ecosystems in the Mountain West.
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Idaho Matters takes a look at the "salmon wars" and where the struggling fish stand today.
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One of the reports was produced by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nez Perce Tribe and the State of Oregon.
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Climate change and outdated dams are shrinking fish populations across the Mountain West and beyond. That includes a species that a Native American tribe in our region used to rely on.
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Student activists question Idaho lawmakers.
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Should the four Lower Snake River dams be torn down? The debate has been going on for decades. Advocates of the idea to tear them down say the move would…
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The migration of sockeye salmon from their birth in Idaho’s Redfish Lake to the Pacific Ocean ties Oregon, Washington and the Gem State together. But that…