Protecting Oregon’s Beavers—and Salmon—From Wildlife Services It may sound strange, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture regularly kills Oregon’s state animal—beavers—with traps, snares and firearms. Numerous studies show beavers benefit endangered salmon and...
Protecting Native Steelhead in the North and South Santiam Rivers In 1999, the National Marine Fisheries Service listed native winter steelhead trout in the upper Willamette River basin in Oregon as threatened with extinction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pays for...
Protecting Healthy Flows in the Spokane River In 2015, the Washington Department of Ecology implemented an instream flow rule for the Spokane River that establishes summer flows that are so low as to threaten existing uses, including aquatic habitat for fish and...
Saving Puget Sound The delicate Sound The Washington Department of Ecology has conducted decades of studies on the serious effects of nutrient and toxic pollution on Puget Sound, revealing a broad variety of water quality problems affecting the Sound, its marine life,...
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