The four Columbia River treaty tribes — Umatilla, Warm Springs, Nez Perce and Yakama — led the creation of a plan to restore salmon on the Columbia and Snake Rivers and invited the federal ...

A sweeping Biden-era initiative to restore Columbia Basin salmon runs, boost tribal energy development and provide a pathway for dam removal on the Lower Snake River has been canceled by President ...

Having this moment to even take my kids out is important to me.” The Yakama Nation, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, ...

The 2023 agreement was reached after decades of legal battles that pitted the federal government against four Lower Columbia River tribes and environmental groups backed by the states of Oregon ...

When four dams were built on the lower Snake River in Idaho in the 1960s, they inundated ancestral lands and fishing grounds of Columbia River Native Americans, including the Nez Perce Tribe.

The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four ...

The Chinook Indian Nation--whose ancestors lived along both shores of the lower Columbia River, ... Because of its nonrecognized status, the Chinook Indian Nation often faces challenges in its efforts ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A team of scientists, including one from Oregon State University, concluded in a recent paper that breaching four dams in the Lower Snake River Basin in Washington ...

A “historic” deal made two years ago between the U.S. government, four tribes, Northwest states and environmentalists to put legal battles aside and invest in restoring endangered Columbia ...

Environmental advocates, tribes and others have pushed to remove the four dams – Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite on the Snake River between Kennewick, Washington ...