The Trump administration wants a road built through an Alaska wildlife refuge for medical needs – but commerce may be the real reason.
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Update: New law makes it easier to kill salmon-eating sea lions
In the Columbia River, up to 920 sea lions can be removed each year to protect fish.
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New rules limiting clean water protections ignore stream science
What happens to part of a river network affects all of it.
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Update: Razorback sucker populations are increasing
The endangered fish seem to be recovering in the San Juan River.
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Settlement forces Oregon to update water pollution permits
In 2017, the state had the worst backlog of expired permits nationwide.
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Follow the fish
Fish-stocking has drawn otters to the Beartooth Plateau of Montana. What effect do they have in their new environs?
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A fishing rod stronger than war’s dark legacy
After his father’s suicide, a son seeks solace in the streams.
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Tossing salmon for science
A decades-long experiment demonstrates how the iconic fish help trees grow.
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Latest: Yurok Tribe cancels salmon season on Klamath River
For the third year in a row, the tribal citizens won’t have commercial fishing.
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Interior Department issues order to avoid settlements
Critics say the decree will slow down the implementation of enacted laws.
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An Alaska ballot measure could kill Pebble Mine
In November, voters will decide how to balance resource development and salmon habitat protections.
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An end of the line for the kings of the Yukon?
A writer visits Alaska and finds a fishing culture in slow collapse, fading with its most important resource.
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A toilet project; carpet-bombing trout; the ick factor
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Tiny bits of plastic permeate our world
From alpine headwaters to city water supplies, the West is awash in microscopic pollutants.
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Orcas need more than sympathy and prayers
Will our citizens muster the political will needed to save killer whales and the chinook that sustain them?
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Mining protections lapse on one of Oregon’s wildest rivers
The Department of Interior’s failure to extend restrictions exposes the weaknesses of a key environmental law.
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Imperiled wildlife are caught in a political tug-of-war
The proposed bills and rule changes that would reshape the Endangered Species Act.
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Hunters and anglers need to get the lead out
Lead ammunition and fishing gear poison ecosystems — and dinner tables.
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The future of Alaska’s Pebble Mine — and its salmon
A timeline shows Scott Pruitt’s EPA waffling between mining and fishing interests.
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Supreme Court to states: Live up to your treaty obligations
Will future courts order states to take down fish-blocking dams?