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From AP News.com: Judge orders changes to Columbia and Snake river dam operations to help 'disappearing' salmon

https://apnews.com/article/snake-columbia-rivers-dams-salmon-trump-d9e5f824be812d3f86539060272c234a

Judge orders changes to Pacific Northwest dam operation to help salmon

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest to help salmon. U.S. District Judge Michael Simon said the Trump administration’s plans for the massive structures would harm salmon runs that are “disappearing from the landscape.” The ruling came in a decades-long legal effort by the states of Oregon and Washington, Native American tribes, and conservation and fishing groups to ensure better protections for migrating salmon, which are killed in large numbers by the dams. The litigation was recently revived after the Trump administration torpedoed a landmark 2023 agreement to help recover imperiled salmon runs.

AP News

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Выява дня: Тэтонскія горы і рака Снэйк (штат Ваёмінг, ЗША, 1942).

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Follow GOLF Jan 21

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Johannes Beilharz Jul 26, 2025

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Joan Carroll Jul 3, 2025

Mount Moran in Grant Teton NP Wyoming is reflected in the calm water of the Snake River in the foreground in the early morning light.

https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/oxbow-bend-grand-teton-np-wyoming-2-joan-carroll.html

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Joan Carroll Jun 19, 2025

At Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton NP, a channel of the Snake River "bends" towards the turnout with the tranquil water reflecting the towering snow-capped Mount Moran, particularly in the still early morning air.

https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/oxbow-bend-grand-teton-np-wyoming-joan-carroll.html

DoomsdaysCW Jun 16, 2025

HT @MusiqueNow

Trump Cancels Deal With Tribes to Restore #ColumbiaRiverSalmon

"Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

"The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.

"It was a remarkable step following repeated failures by the government to uphold the tribal fishing rights it swore in treaties to preserve.

"The agreement is now just another of those #BrokenPromises.

"President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday pulling the federal government out of the deal. Trump’s decision halted a government-wide initiative to restore abundant salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake rivers and signaled an end to the government’s willingness to consider removing dams that blocked their free flow."

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-salmon-columbia-river-tribes-deal.

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Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon

The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

ProPublica