Judge Finds Hydro BiOp Legally Flawed
Judge James Redden ruled last week in Oregon District Court that the 2004 biological opinion for running hydro operations to help ESA-listed fish populations is invalid. ...more

Enviros Go All Out To Sell Judge On Expanded Summer Operations
Environmental and fishing groups filed a final flurry of declarations May 16 in federal court to counter harsh criticism of their proposal to boost summer flows and add spill. ...more

Who Ate All The Fish? Just About Everybody It Seems
The tens of thousand of missing chinook from this year's upriver Columbia run may still be swimming somewhere off the mouth of the river, but may be in another form, having possibly been eaten as smolts by hordes of hake that have reappeared offshore in huge numbers. ...more

Mid-C Utilities Question USFWS Study On Hanford Fish Stranding
Mid-Columbia public utility officials say a recent study released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency and others on Hanford fall chinook fry stranding failed "to properly evaluate" the issues in the context of the seven-dam system on the Columbia River. ...more